True about Aureal still being the gold standard bearer.
But I should add as a footnote, that creative only sucked them up AFTER they delisted off the nasdaq and became a virtual penny stock while almost declaring chapter 11. Creative was able to suck their IP for next to NOTHING.
And they remain the gold standard 5 years AFTER the fact. What's that in inverse moore's?
You obviously don't have a clue about politics if you think the system only provided us with two choices. The choice for the democratic nomination started in the summer of 2003 FYI. Every voting eligible citizen has every right to participate in the process of voting for one of many potential candidiates during the commencement of the Caucus season. There's a very good reason why it wasn't McCain vs Dean. McCain lost to Bush during the republican caucus season of 2000 (undermined so meticulously by Rove and co's patently false slander) while Dean imploded by declaring insanity with the now infamous 'Dean Scream' just when he was looking like a lock on the nomination and had just received an endorsement by Al Gore. You meanwhile, were obviously MIA.
I'm sick of people asking so indignantly that tired old cliche of two choices during the primary season, as if the primary season started on November the 2nd. It does nothing but reveal the stupendous ignorance that many americans have of the political process.
It's a beautiful thing really, the swirling winds of a free market economy. The market forces of competition are what drives creativity and inspiration that is ultimately behind the delivery of better, more efficient, and affordable products to consumers the world over, at least in theory anyway.
But it's quite pointless to harbor this type of animosity towards Sun. It's transparent to anyone who cares enough to follow the industry that how precariously close they are to extinction at the moment, and having seen the abyss are in panic mode to try and reinvent themselves hoping the public can at least remember enough of their past glory to remain in public consciousness. After all, they were the standards bearers for the industry for a period of time, and have more significant contributions to the unix world than a number of other fadish neo*nixes that I will thankfully abstain from eulogizing.
The anti-open stance of their position today amd their joining with MS has been necessary just for survival so they might HOPE to even have the chance to reinvent themselves. Since if you look at their business model, what do they have if they open up their source? They become a hardware manufacturer? VA Sun? I don't think so. for what they are and represent today, they had no choice.
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True about Aureal still being the gold standard bearer. But I should add as a footnote, that creative only sucked them up AFTER they delisted off the nasdaq and became a virtual penny stock while almost declaring chapter 11. Creative was able to suck their IP for next to NOTHING. And they remain the gold standard 5 years AFTER the fact. What's that in inverse moore's?
You obviously don't have a clue about politics if you think the system only provided us with two choices. The choice for the democratic nomination started in the summer of 2003 FYI. Every voting eligible citizen has every right to participate in the process of voting for one of many potential candidiates during the commencement of the Caucus season. There's a very good reason why it wasn't McCain vs Dean. McCain lost to Bush during the republican caucus season of 2000 (undermined so meticulously by Rove and co's patently false slander) while Dean imploded by declaring insanity with the now infamous 'Dean Scream' just when he was looking like a lock on the nomination and had just received an endorsement by Al Gore. You meanwhile, were obviously MIA.
I'm sick of people asking so indignantly that tired old cliche of two choices during the primary season, as if the primary season started on November the 2nd. It does nothing but reveal the stupendous ignorance that many americans have of the political process.
It's a beautiful thing really, the swirling winds of a free market economy. The market forces of competition are what drives creativity and inspiration that is ultimately behind the delivery of better, more efficient, and affordable products to consumers the world over, at least in theory anyway. But it's quite pointless to harbor this type of animosity towards Sun. It's transparent to anyone who cares enough to follow the industry that how precariously close they are to extinction at the moment, and having seen the abyss are in panic mode to try and reinvent themselves hoping the public can at least remember enough of their past glory to remain in public consciousness. After all, they were the standards bearers for the industry for a period of time, and have more significant contributions to the unix world than a number of other fadish neo*nixes that I will thankfully abstain from eulogizing. The anti-open stance of their position today amd their joining with MS has been necessary just for survival so they might HOPE to even have the chance to reinvent themselves. Since if you look at their business model, what do they have if they open up their source? They become a hardware manufacturer? VA Sun? I don't think so. for what they are and represent today, they had no choice.