humandoing software

…and it’s about time, too.

I’ve been wondering for the past two years what on earth he was still doing at the helm of Sun. Whether he intended it this way or not, it has seemed to me that for the past two or so years, his intent has been to drive Sun into the ground, not make them competitive.

“Let’s just open source every product we have, and give everything away for free. Heck, we should even give our servers away for free.”

I can’t say that “make your strategy controversial” (quote from McNealy on some of the latest paraphernalia I received at Sun Tech Days) is the best way to keep your customers and shareholders happy.

Who knows if Schwartz can do any better, we can revisit again in another 2 years and see.

Someone on the Mac Users Group here was selling a pair of Shure e2c’s they bought a few months ago at about $80 less than retail. I picked them up and am totally loving them. Jeffery while he was here let me try out his e3c’s, which were awesome, but I currently can’t justify dropping that kinda cash on headphones.

So far I must say I’m uber impressed with the sound quality and sound isolation of these. I don’t know if I like the flex sleeves or not yet, I might move to the foam instead, both for comfort and sound isolation reasons.

If I wasn’t so lazy, I’d take some pictures and put them up, but unfortunately, I’m not feeling so inclined.