On Thursday 19 March 2009 19:39:52 Brian J. Murrell wrote: > Hrm. You don't seem to have a grasp on how things work in the real > world... > > On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 14:28 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > Please, revolt, write to that ponytail CEO of yours... > > Revolt? The employees have no say in this matter. The duty of the > executive in a public company is to the shareholders first. That's a > fiduciary (IOW, legal) duty, not just one the executive decides on their > own. > 1. Yes, quite a pipe-dream. However, it should be known that IBM is a prime mover in Java technology which is Sun's current claim to fame. Go to their "alphaworks" site and enjoy all the goodies there.
2. IBM is not the big mammoth evil as it was once conceived. 3. One more virtualization technology would not hurt IBM either. > > Even under Dell or HP it'll fare better than under the weight of Big > > Blue. Or better yet, take it of the stock markets and become privately > > owned... > > Yeah. Just crack that gumball machine open and buy back all of the > publicly traded stock. Great idea. I wonder why the "ponytail CEO" > didn't think of that one. > > Now, as for the real world, VirtualBox is FOSS. If you don't like the > direction it goes in, you are free to take the source and do something > new and different with it. > Dell and HP are nice but not pioneers. As I said, IBM is one! My preference is for Sun to stay Sun. Others might have preferred that Sun had not taken over vbox's company. If you own any Sun stock, try to organize a stockholder's revolt. They have been known to be effective in some issues. This is the only "democracy" you will find in the corporate economy (or what remains of it). _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
