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...Novell and Sun were both once-mighty commercial open source-focused companies... Rewrites history. Novell and Sun were both long past their brightest days w
by forgotAgain 16y ago
...Novell and Sun were both once-mighty commercial open source-focused companies...
Rewrites history. Novell and Sun were both long past their brightest days when they embraced open source. In fact they embraced open source in desperate efforts to remain relevant in a world that had passed them by.
- chrisaycock 16y agoRight! Novell was already hemorrhaging cash before they bought SUSE, and Linux was replacing Solaris before Sun gave away the family jewels. Neither one of those companies were known for their open-source contributions before Red Hat started eating their lunch.
- mbrubeck 16y agoIn fact, I don't see that Sun was any more of an open-source company than, say, Google (another public company that contributes to free software but makes its money elsewhere). And don't forget Mozilla, which might not be a public company (it's a non-profit foundation with a wholly-owned for-profit subsidiary) but is entirely open-source-focused and pays hundreds of people to work on free software.