"This episode illustrates why I think throwing our lot back with Netscape is foolish. They are completely untrustworthy. No agreement with Netscape is worth the ink it's written with. Go sign a deal with Saddam Hussein. It has a better chance of being honoured."
- Sun Vice President Jon Kannegaard in a 1997 email to Eric Schmidt, then the company's Chief Technical Officer, after a delay in the joint licensing of JavaScript.
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