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Scott McNealy’s Five Reasons That Free, Open Source Software is Good for Sun and Our Customers

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“Recently Scott McNealy spoke to the Sun OS Ambassadors at our
semi-annual conference in Menlo Park CA. He told us that he is
frequently asked by customers:

  • Why Sun is doing this whole ‘open source’ thing and giving away
    software for free?
  • “How can Sun expect to make any money with free software?
  • “How is this good for customers?

“He gave us his five reasons…”


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