Jonathan Schwartz' "give it all away and be baffled when profits drop" odyssey continues:

Profit at Sun Microsystems, the computer server maker, declined 73 percent in the most recent quarter as slumping sales to big American companies and reorganization charges weighed on the server and software maker.

Funny how people won't pay if you just give them your products for free. Their problem is in being a hardware company with hardware that there's little point in buying - you can find cheaper stuff elsewhere, and then run Sun's software on it without having to pay for it. You can say a lot of things about that, but "viable business model" isn't one of them.

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