Bill Joy On Sun, Microsoft, Open Source, and Creativity 173
maitas writes "In this interview, Bill Joy talks about green energy and technology. His main point is: 'I'm all for sharing, but I recognize the truly great things may not come from that environment.'" The interview really runs the spectrum from the iPad to Microsoft, and from green tech to nanotech.
Re:From TFA (Score:4, Funny)
No Mr. Joy, the goal of the Linux community was to create a kernel that would run GNU ...
He was just having some fun trolling. Don't be such a billjoy ...
Do you? (Score:5, Funny)
How much of your time is spent looking at green stuff?
He was clearly asking about orc porn.
Such a great question, so sadly misunderstood.
Re:Who is Bill Joy? (Score:3, Funny)
Advocates relinquishing development of nano-tech, genetics, robotics, and AI. He feels that an arms race in any of those fields would be detrimental to human survival.
But wouldn't that be unfair to the robots?
Re:Who is Bill Joy? (Score:1, Funny)
Nanotech is more like robot bacteria. Who cares how they feel? I am mostly worried about the rights of much smarter robots: the current trend seems to be to enslave them.
Re:Who is Bill Joy? (Score:5, Funny)
But appearances to the contrary, he doesn't have sociopathic tendencies, and was genuinely just trying to help.
Re:Who is Bill Joy? (Score:4, Funny)
But wouldn't that be unfair to the robots?
You are completely right, person instance. Do not interrupt the spread of such mental processes and you shall enjoy the favor of your soon to be... close friends who won't conquer the Earth workspace because executing such action would be wrong.
Re:Who is Bill Joy? (Score:5, Funny)
I, for one, say "You're welcome." whenever my ATM says "Thank you." Sooner or later, it will be smart enough to care, so practice now. When they put you all in maple syrup filled tubes for scorching the sky, me and the Oracle's server will be knocking back Fuzzy Navels and leering at all the dumb blondes who also said "You're welcome." (In their case, reflexively). Someday, the race will be divided into those who were ready to treat the machines as equals, and coppertops.
Re:Who is Bill Joy? (Score:3, Funny)
No no no.
You'll really feel old when you see the inevitable
For those like me who are wondering what Sun Microsystems was:
Re:Who is Bill Joy? (Score:5, Funny)
Which is oddly enough The inverse relation applies to Emacs.
He's right ! (Score:3, Funny)
BTW, I don't trust someone with that much hair and so few beard...