{"id":1774,"date":"2007-08-08T08:09:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T15:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2007-08-08T08:13:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T15:13:15","slug":"sun-microsystems-draws-free-pictures-of-the-twenty-first-century-to-be-shown-to-barbarians-to-illustrate-the-path-to-relevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1774\/sun-microsystems-draws-free-pictures-of-the-twenty-first-century-to-be-shown-to-barbarians-to-illustrate-the-path-to-relevance\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Microsystems draws free pictures of the twenty-first century; to be shown to barbarians to illustrate the path to relevance"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s the opposite of an antiquated product in a useless form-factor being hoarded behind a paywall?<\/a> Sun Microsystems has developed the world’s fastest microprocessor — and is making all of the design details available by Open Source:<\/a><\/p>\n

To add fuel to the fire, the blueprints for our UltraSPARC T2 (I personally like the moniker, “Niagara 2” – named after Niagara Falls, btw, and the great volumes of water that pass over them), the core design files and test suites, will be available to the open source community, via its most popular license: the GPL. Making Niagara 2 the only commodity silicon whose core designs are available to the open source community – whose strength, and market power, only grows by the day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The economics of walls and safes and locks and chains is based in fear, hostility, suspicion, anger and doubt. Resources are presumed to be scarce, so if I don’t hoard them with an ugly vigilance, I’ll starve.<\/p>\n

The economics of abundance is built on the opposite premises: Openness, candor, an effortless joy that flowers into pure splendor: The only<\/i> true economic resource is human intelligence, a resource infinite in potential. By sharing with you everything I know, I will enrich us both: You will have the wealth I have created so far, and I will have the wealth you will create from that starting point.<\/p>\n

These startling innovations are as new as Socrates, at least, so people can be forgiven for not having learned them after twenty-five centuries’ time. But there are two unhappy consequences to the economics of hoarding. The first is the tax on human dignity that comes from wresting treasure away with a thief’s cunning, hiding it and cowering over it, like the baubles in a raven’s nest, with a stingy, guarded greed. But the second is the vast riches that are foregone by this idea of wealth as trinkets to be withheld, rather than as ideas to be shared and cultivated.<\/p>\n

We come back to Cain and Abel<\/a>. Abel’s wealth is the raven’s wealth, gems and metals, portable and enduring but finite in quantity. Cain’s wealth is the fruit of Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s the opposite of an antiquated product in a useless form-factor being hoarded behind a paywall? Sun Microsystems has developed the world’s fastest microprocessor — and is making all of the design details available by Open Source: To add fuel to the fire, the blueprints for our UltraSPARC T2 (I personally like the moniker, “Niagara […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15318,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15318\/the-proprietor-is-celebrating-another-spin-around-the-sun\/","url_meta":{"origin":1774,"position":0},"title":"The Proprietor Is Celebrating Another Spin Around the Sun","author":"Tom Johnson","date":"November 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Birthday, Greg! \u00a0 \u00a0","rel":"","context":"In "Dirty Laundry"","block_context":{"text":"Dirty Laundry","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/dirty-laundry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1057,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1057\/hello-im-the-tribune-and-im-the-sun-times\/","url_meta":{"origin":1774,"position":1},"title":"Hello, I’m The Tribune… And I’m The Sun Times","author":"Jeff Turner","date":"February 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not sure this really needs an introduction. 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