Scott McNealy Still an Idiot, May Possibly Live in Bubble.

Sun Microsystems missed the boat in a huge way. They ignored Linux until it wasn't cool to ignore Linux anymore, and by then they were almost as deep in as Silicon Graphics, which barely exists anymore. Remember them? I always wanted to own a SPARC or an O2, but Linux was so much better, and it ran on hardware that I could afford. We know where that battle ended.

McNealy still thinks he's smart, and so he says that telcos need to serve up content or die, as opposed to say, providing services in accordance with their FCC licenses issued under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which amended the Telecommunications Act of 1934:

"I have explained to every telco that either you become a destination site, or the destination site will become a telco...I think the telcos have to make sure they don't get marginalized to just being bit providers and bandwidth providers"

Um...did he miss the FCC hearing Monday, when one of the Commissioners (I forget who) noted that if Comcast didn't offer Video on Demand service, that their restriction of Vuze's BitTorrent-based video content would have not been an issue?

Telcos have much to gain through R&D, competition, and being honest brokers. In fact, by law that's what they are. McNealy obviously knows very little about communications law, policy, or the history such concepts as the common carrier, Stratton-Oakmont v. Prodigy or the recent Net Neutrality debates.

Oh, yeah. Speaking of too-little, too-late:

"During a speech earlier in the day, McNealy slammed the U.S. government for not being interested in adopting open-source software. McNealy said the farther he gets from Washington, the more governments get interested in open source."

Thanks for finally jumping on the bandwagon, Scott. You recieve no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.