OT: McNealy: Solaris is our Queen

From: Anthony Cypherpoopies Mandic (RR_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/20/03 

Date: 20 Sep 2003 11:40:16 GMT

[ hold your hand over his picture, lest you be turned into enamel ]

http://news.com.com/2008-1012_3-5079117.html

The new strategy under the Sun

Thus Spake McNealy:
#
# We are moving through the hierarchy of enlightenment. Call it
# "McMaslow's hierarchy of IT enlightenment" to self-actualization,
# where you just use the stuff in the same way you just use
# telephone switches and you just use nuclear power plants and
# you use the Hoover Dam, without having to know how to work it.
#
# This is why I crack up when I learn my third-grader's learning
# how to program. I want to go in and tell them, are you teaching
# him how to program a telephone switch, too? Or work a nuclear
# power plant? It's just a continuum.

Ugh, woakay.

Thus Spocked McNealy:
#
# Open source doesn't matter. It doesn't matter where the bits came from.
# It matters if it has open interfaces, if it interoperates. You only
# care: Does it fit in, does it plug in, does it interoperate, does it
# plug and play?
#
# Actually, the scary part about open source is you don't know where the
# code came from because nobody will indemnify it. And so we use open
# source as a technology company to build systems. You saw us build Mad
# Hatter (Sun's Linux desktop software) almost entirely out of open-source
# components. You shouldn't try this at home, because you don't have an
# intellectual property arsenal to fight a SCO (Group) or a Microsoft or
# somebody else if they came after you, and as a media company you can't
# ignore copyright.

Ugh, it's open source so "don't try this at home?"

What's wrong with this picture?

Thus Splattered McNealy:
#
# If I have a smart card to authenticate myself to the cable
# network, and they know who I am, and they know I'm allowed to
# look at Room 33 in Ormondale School, then only those parents
# who have kids in the school are allowed to look in.
#
# If you have multifactor authentication, like Java card, then
# there is no privacy issue. I shouldn't be allowed on the grounds
# unless I have a Java card, I'd feel like my kids were in a safer
# environment if they had to have multifactor identification to
# get on the grounds at my kid's school.
#
# Absolute anonymity breeds irresponsibility. Audit trails and
# authentication provide a much more civil society. I'm just a
# total believer in that.

And so we're not going to be allowed to travel around the country
domestically without a virtual internal passport --- yea terrorists
and our own government. And McNealy. Fear, Loathing and Suspicion.
http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60502,00.html

McNealy Finale:
#
# Q: Will there come a point where the x86 version of Solaris is
# going to outship Linux?
#
# I can't make predictions.

I hope no one was taking a sip of anything while reading that.

#
# Q: The software makers seem to be writing to Linux.
#
# They're writing to Java. And most of the applications written
# to Linux are running on the app server in Java. You don't write
# to the operating system anymore because then it's stuck on that
# OS. You want to write it to the Java level of abstraction because
# then it runs on the smart card, it runs on the set-top box, it
# runs on the game machine, it runs on multiple versions of Unix,
# it runs on multiple versions of Linux, it runs on Mac, it runs
# on every server running J2EE on the planet. The kernel doesn't
# matter.

Most apps for Linux are written in Java?

Everything will "run on the Mac"...I'm looking forward to my dual-G5.

-am © 2003

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