[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Scott McNealy, the chairman, president, chief executive officer
and most prominent co-founder still at Sun Microsystems Inc.,
likened freely distributed open-source code to ‘unwrapped
software.’“In an interview with Baseline magazine at the Sun Microsystems
John Elway Celebrity Classic golf tournament in a technology-edged
suburb of Denver, McNealy said the advent of free software can be
more costly than custom code written for a company by a third
party.“It’s ‘even worse,’ he said. ‘First of all, you don’t know where
it came from. Second of all, it hasn’t been certified ‘tested.’ So
you have got to go through all of that. Third of all, it needs to
be put together. You need to get drivers here, you need to get
applications, you need to get all these tiny pieces of software
because everybody is doing their own thing; there’s no systems
integrator…'”