To be clear, I have never blamed Ellison for the demise of Sun or even Solaris -- but I do blame Oracle for re-proprietarizing OpenSolaris, and thereby ripping

To be clear, I have never blamed Ellison for the demise of Sun or even Solaris -- but I do blame Oracle for re-proprietarizing OpenSolaris, and thereby ripping up the social contract of copyright assignment in an open source project. If it must be said, this wasn't an isolated incident -- and in hindsight, was merely the front of a conga line bad Oracle behavior. As for my own putative ignorance of market demands, one of Sun's growth areas at the time of acquisition in terms of revenue was the group that I had co-founded within Sun[1][2] -- in part because we had listened carefully to the market, and built a product that it very much wanted. Finally, if we want to engage in the perennial musing as to the demise of Sun, I think for my part I still broadly stand by my analysis from 2011.[3] [1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/11/10/fishworks-now-it-can-be-told/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/11/10/fishworks-now-it-can-... [2] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2010/07/25/good-bye-sun/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2010/07/25/good-bye-sun/ [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287033