Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Cache & cached archives

[James Blackwell]

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:24:16PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
>> Someone recently said on this list that Sun has been "trying to go out
>> of business".
>

Andrew Suffield:
> It's a long-standing (decades old) joke in some places. Sun have a
> history of starting strange and off-the-wall projects, and then
> inexplicably cancelling them just as they start to show signs of
> becoming mainstream and significant.
>
> A notable exception to this trend is Java, which doesn't make them any
> money.

Though I don't think they make a profit, I think they do make money. As
I understand it, they "sell" java on a lot of embedded devices,
particularly cell phones. 


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