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This afternoon, Sun Microsystems proudly hosted the founders of Hewlett-Packard at Sun HQ.

(Sun Microsystems' flacks pitched us on the following story, but only because they knew we love a good gang war.)

This summer, Bay Area artists sent life-size cutouts of Silicon Valley on a hitchhiking tour designed to end with glorious homecomings for all. But cutouts of HP founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were turned away at their own company's headquarters, according to one of the project's creators.

That artist's husband is an engineer for Sun. Sun and HP are kind of like rival gangs (the poncey finger-snapping, dancing kind, not the bust-some-caps-in-your-ass kind), and their last run-in ended with HP slapping its brand on Sun's cocktail napkins. So you'll forgive Sun for needing a little payback — and for turning this into a "fuck you" to HP's business decisions.

Sun Rescues Hewlett and Packard [Sun Blogs]
Where's Waldo meets Silicon Valley [SF Tech Chronicles]
The Adventures of Hewlett and Packard [YLEM.org]