On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 16:30 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > Buy hey, WTF do I know...
Hey. I said nothing about the pros/cons of IBM buying Sun so let's not muddy the waters with such debate and instead continue to concentrate on your advise, that the employees should stop this acquisition... > Of course not. If half the company employees walk away after an > acquisition Yeah. Walk. To where? You do realize those people all have roofs over their heads and mouths to feed right? Where are 15,000+ people all just going to walk to and not be out on the streets with their families, hungry and cold? What is even more laughable about that proposition is the times in which you are proposing it. Because there is just so much hiring going on out there currently. > (see AOL's purchase of Netscape), then the CEO and the > board better evaluate different offers, don't you think? Other offers? I have not read much about the possible acquisition, but what I did read did not sound like Sun had a dozen (or even more than one) suitors lined up. What other offers? > I don't have the quote handy, but I read somewhere that former Sun > execs were looking for other buyers. The articles I read did say they were shopping around, indeed, but that they were not having much luck. > Great, I will ask you when there's an odd bug in Virtualbox then and > IBM has decided to fire Frank Mehnert and his Vbox team Virtualbox > doesn't suit IBM's agenda of the day and has put Virtualbox in > "maintenance mode" (now renamed IBM Wesphere Enterprise Virtualization > Server for z-Series") at their research centre in Beijing, > incidentally making it "an integral part" of another piece of IBM > middleware software junk. That's just a totally silly argument. Like I said, VirtualBox is FOSS. If there is a bug, Frank is not the only person who can fix it. You could do it. Any number of people could do it. If anyone decided to "retire" VirtualBox and somebody else, like you perhaps, thought there was still money to be made on developing it, there is nothing, at all, stopping you from wrapping a company around it and doing so. The problem is your concerns over any future direction are focusing around the free (as in beer) aspect of VirtualBox and are ignoring the free (as in speech) aspects. > [I won't comment further, as this is kinda off-topic for this list] Indeed. b.
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