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Bill Joy

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Luminaries like Bill Joy, Bill Gates and Ray Kurzweil have all raised the alarm.
KPCB, Bright Capital, BASF and BP have recommitted to the business in the current round, and are joined by Lafarge Group and another French entity, Total Energy Ventures; and, Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy, who has served on the Solidia board as a KPCB partner.
To forestall Skynet and other tech terrors, Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy has argued for a vast technological relinquishment in which whole fields of research are abandoned.
Gosling, James and Bill Joy, Guy Steele, Gilad Bracha, Alex Buckley.
Underscoring his and his colleagues' vision of a federal government role not to control data diffusion but instead as a facilitator of innovation and collaboration, Park referred to a maxim articulated years ago by Bill Joy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, which has become known as "Joy's Law." "Bill Joy," he said, "used to say that, you have to remember that no matter where in the world you are, most of the smart people in the world work for someone else.
The author cites the example of Bill Joy and Bill Gates to prove his point.
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