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Sun employee Larry Wake said of the slogan, "When Sun originated that tag line in the early 1980s, it was actually quite audacious. It was a stake in the ground ‘Computers should be networked, or they're… not computers. Well, at least, you're missing their potential by a country
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The first slogan used by Sun was "Open Systems for Open Minds"; "The Network is the Computer" has been the tagline of Sun for decades. According to Sun's former director of CAD/CAM marketing, the meaning of the slogan is that you had one window into the
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that he was fine with Cloudflare having bought the rights because it meant Sun's efforts were successful.
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and that with the appropriate software, other people's computing power could be utilized with
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bought the rights to the expired trademark. John Gage stated in an interview with
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but without the slogan being discussed, used or defended. In July 2019,
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in 1984. Contrary to popular belief, the slogan was not coined by
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Sun Microsystems

content delivery network
DDoS mitigation
Cloudflare
slogan
John Gage
Sun Microsystems
Scott McNealy
Wired
truism
Silicon Valley
network
desktop computer
offloading
Oracle bought Sun
content delivery network
Cloudflare
John Graham-Cumming
Eric Schmidt § Schmidt's Law
"John Gage: he is the network"
doi
10.1109/MSPEC.2004.1265128
ISSN
1939-9340
S2CID
42375939

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