Reply-To: Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: cocot@osc.versant.com (Doctor COCOT) To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0003] UNIX: The ever-quotable Scott McNealy Keywords: surfpunk Scott McNealy is the chairman of Sun Microsystems, which has usually been considered, at least by the UNIX hackers, to be the leader in UNIX workstations for at least the last five years, perhaps ten. Keith is a fan of his ability to not hold back from saying what he thinks of his competitors. -- Dr Cocot ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ From: keith@cc.gatech.edu (Keith Edwards) Subject: The ever-quotable Scott McNealy Date: Fri, 4 Dec 92 17:08:30 EST Message-Id: <9212042208.AA21611@picasso.cc.gatech.edu> Is anyone compiling a list of famous Scott McNealy quotes? >From the December 1992 issue of UnixWorld: BUDDIES? NOT! For this month's cover, we had hoped to feature a photograph of Next Chairman Steve Jobs and Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman Scott McNealy, with their arms draped around each others' shoulders. The point? To symbolize that 1992 was a year in which at least some of the UNIX hostilities were patched up. (McNealy once said at a press conference: "I'd rather have needles stuck in my eyes than to have Nextstep run on Sun workstations.") Sadly, the UNIX industry hasn't yet reached love-fest status. While Jobs eagerly agreed to appear in the photograph, McNealy turned us down, saying through a Sun spokesperson: "I'd be happy to pose with my arm around [NCR CEO] Gil Williamson or [Hewlett-Packard CEO] Lew Platt or someone who has a real company that ships real UNIX." ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states, spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither. ________________________________________________________________________ Send postings to , subscription requests to . MIME encouraged. Xanalogical archive access soon. Confusion to our enemies. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________