An Open Letter To Sun

June 27, 2005 10:31 pm General

Oh wait, Sun’s my company…nevermind. So by now everyone’s seen the new Ultra 20 workstations starting at $895 – something that we’re not really going to make much money out of at that price.

Now Open Source has always been important to Sun – we’ve proved that in the past, and will continue to prove it in the future. However, there’s always been one request from hundreds of employees working directly with various open source projects – being able to donate hardware and software to make those projects significantly better. I’d like to think we could have a few of these machines to share, especially for the projects that we’re interested in, start up an annual program, and make the world a better place. Call it ‘Summer of Hardware’, if you will.

I’ve asked. Who’ll listen?

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