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by nvm0n1 1053 days ago
What I meant is, a lackadaisical approach to billing and asking for money was common at Sun for everything software related, same thing for Java which was definitely a line item.
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Hardware was Sun's revenue model.

Cost of revenue for penny-ante fluff would have been orders of magnitude greater than actual revenue. Goodwill and other benefits substantively greater.

Blaming Sun's demise on Virtualbox largess is ludicrous on its face.