Re: Apple + Sun ?

In article <200608301730388930-jcrnospam@nospammaccom>, John C.
Randolph <jcr.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Both of which can be had without assuming Sun's obligations. It's very
much like when people say that Apple should buy SGI: why bother, when
you can just cherry-pick the people you want as they give up hope and
leave the dying company?

I can answer that -- because of the patents and products.
A company doesn't just run on the people -- in tech, you also want
control/access to the patents and products.
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