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After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out

Posted by timothy on from the best-logo-too dept.

Tekla Perry (3034735) writes "Former Sun executives and employees gathered in Mountain View, Calif., in May, and out came the 'real' stories. Andy Bechtolsheim reports that Steve Jobs wasn't the only one who set out to copy the Xerox Parc Alto; John Gage wonders why so many smart engineers couldn't figure out that it would have been better to buy tables instead of kneepads for the folks doing computer assembly; Vinod Khosla recalls the plan to 'rip-off Sun technology,' and more."

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  1. Cool Technology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Facebook intentionally left a few Sun signs up when it took over the former Sun campus in Menlo Park to remind people of what can happen to a company) the people inside will still be working on cool technology.

    Oh god! Comparing those two companies is like comparing McDonald's with a five star French restaurant.

    SUN created cutting edge hardware. Invented new technologies. Actually added value to society, the economy and science.

    Facebook is a dipshit consumer data pimping and advertising site that not only adds nothing to society but has actually hurting society by making its users even more isolated and keeping them in front of the modern Boob Toob. People are using Facebook as a substitute for real human interaction.

    I'd be proud to have worked for SUN and I'd be ashamed to work for Facebook.

    I hope every programmer, developer or JavaScript "engineer" that walks past that sign looks at it and asks themselves, "Why the fuck am I wasting my life at this worthless place contributing nothing of value to the World?"