What Sun Got Wrong

We have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some t-shirts featuring Oxide logos that are an homage to past computer companies.

Thanks to our designer extraordinaire, Ben Leonard , all of these homage shirts are amazing — but one of them was simply too hot to leave as a surprise:

Unsurprisingly, this shirt has stirred up a bunch of nostalgia for Sun. Much of the fondness for Sun has been earned: Oxide’s mission comes directly from Scott McNealy’s epitaph for Sun — and Scott’s reflection that over 28 years he "never had to hide the newspaper in shame from my children" remains words that all companies should live by .