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It's sad that, albeit being a major contributor of open source code during the 2000's, Sun Microsystems was getting a lot of hatred from many quarters the open
by aduitsis 6y ago
It's sad that, albeit being a major contributor of open source code during the 2000's, Sun Microsystems was getting a lot of hatred from many quarters the open source community. Not sure how much that contributed to Sun eventually getting acquired, but I think when it happened the world was left poorer.
- birdyrooster 6y agothe open source community was a lot harder to take seriously back then, its hard to remember/imagine how much licensed and in-house software we ran back in the late 90s, but so much was either paid for or bespoke
- m463 6y agoI think market forces did sun in. They had little to do with sun's stance on open source. Basically the high margin "big iron" wasn't (as) necessary - internet services worked fine on racks of small unreliable inexpensive systems.