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I suspect not legally possible. There is a lot of code in the NT kernel from various other companies that at least at one point was under NDA, and a lot probab
by dbcurtis 8y ago
I suspect not legally possible. There is a lot of code in the NT kernel from various other companies that at least at one point was under NDA, and a lot probably still is.
- monocasa 8y agoThat was true of Solaris too, and they managed to work through that.
- TomMarius 8y agoI imagine that MS could be much further down this line...
- pjmlp 8y agoWith heavy consequences for Sun's viability.
- dbcurtis 8y agoNah, SUN was buried under Intel's fab capacity. A big tsunami of cheap silicon rolled in -- Linux surfed it, SUN wiped out under it.
- monocasa 8y agoCitation needed that opening Solaris had anything to do with Sun getting sold off.
- pjmlp 8y agoIt certainly did not improve sales. I bet no one that downloaded it has spent a dime to Sun.
- monocasa 8y ago> It certainly did not improve sales. It was a free download for decades before being open sourced. From what I heard, it increased support contract sales quite a bit, letting companies feel that that weren't necessarily tied to Sun for Solaris, but knowing that Sun was the best outfit to support it. > I bet no one that downloaded it has spent a dime to Sun. You would lose that bet hard. They made their money on hardware sales and support contracts. A family member of mine was the head of Federal Sales for Sun at the time.
- pjmlp 8y agoI was talking about software sales and apparently those hardware sales weren't enough to keep Sun in business.
- monocasa 8y ago> It was a free download for decades before being open sourced. And it was always the support contracts even more than the hardware sales that kept them going. Starting to nickel and dime for software licenses too wasn't an option on the table for them.