What people haven't commented on in the Business Week piece is the detail from Scott McNealy's biography -- when he crossed a United Auto Workers picket line during a strike.

According to the article, "One summer, he worked in an auto-parts factory. When the United Auto Workers at the plant went on strike, McNealy didn't think twice about crossing the picket lines -- despite bomb threats and jeers from angry union members. 'It seemed incredibly stupid,' he said. 'I couldn't see how highly paid UAW workers were helping their cause' by losing the company money."

The young Scott McNealy showed the same kind of arrogance, short-sightedness, and contempt for others way back then that he has shown now. That attitude, which led him to scab on fellow workers, is the same attitude that drove a once-great company like Sun into the ground.