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Authored by: jbb on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 03:26 PM EDT |
Come on Scott. Get real. OTOH I guess you were telling the truth when you said
you never read
what Schwartz wrote:
I just wanted
to add my voice to the chorus of others from Sun in offering my heartfelt
congratulations to Google on the announcement of their new Java/Linux phone
platform, Android. Congratulations!
I'd also like Sun to be the first
platform software company to commit to a complete developer environment
around the platform as we throw Sun's NetBeans developer platform for mobile
devices behind the effort. We've obviously done a ton of work to support
developers on all Java based platforms, and were pleased to add Google's Android
to the list.
What more does a CEO have to do in order to be
speaking for their company?
--- Our job is to remind ourselves that
there are more contexts than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is
reality.
-- Alan Kay [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 04:00 PM EDT |
I find the 'blueprint' analogy lacking. The API is an idea (analog with
Construction) BuildDeck( int width, int length, int rail_height) Doc: Builds a
deck at the current location to the supplied dimensions.
What the materials, tools, manpower, and cost are are up to the implementation
(code).
You can 'call' many contractors with the BuildDeck function and each will
'implement' the deck uniquely.
The API is the way to 'communicate the idea'.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 04:04 PM EDT |
While wikipedia isn't in any way an authoritarian souce, I'm sure there are a
number that are and would corborate the following:
"As CEO of Sun, Schwartz was known as one of the few Fortune 500 CEO's to
use a blog for public communications. He was recognized for his efforts to
bring greater transparency into the corporate world, and managed a public
exchange with SEC Chairman Christopher Cox about the use of websites and
blogs for the dissemination of financial information [6] to meet Regulation
Fair Disclosure. [7] Schwartz generally believed the internet, and Sun's web
presence on it, was a far more fair and efficient vehicle for the dissemination
of Sun's financial information - as opposed to the expensive, and proprietary
networks fostered by ratings agencies and the Wall Street Journal."
Now IANAL, however, if a CEO was praised for using a blog to inform the
public about what the company is doing, then logic would appear to say that
ANY information on that blog unless preceeded with a personal opinion
statement, could be assumed to be the official position of the company. He
was CEO after all. Just saying....
-Ish[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 09:36 PM EDT |
It seems that unless Sun publicly contradicted the statements (or could convince
the jury that they were unaware of his public statments) it would be reasonable
for outsiders to beleive this was Sun's official position.
If this were not the case, it would be easy to get around estoppel issues. Just
have your CEO make false public statements to mislead other companies then sue
them when they believe what you said. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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