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> But whether or not you you accept the premise that an open source "unix" was inevitable Bryan Cantrill had a great talk[1] on this topic, recalling the effor
by znpy 4y ago
> But whether or not you you accept the premise that an open source "unix" was inevitable
Bryan Cantrill had a great talk[1] on this topic, recalling the efforts of (and the mistakes in) open sourcing Solaris (and the immense disappointment in seeing it get back to closed-source by Oracle).
Of course we can only fantasize about how things would have gone if Solaris had been open source earlier.
[1] I think it's this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc (LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos) I recognize it from the disclaimer "The views and opinions expressed in this video..." on the side :)
- ghaff 4y agoI did a podcast with Bryan and SJVN debating this topic. https://bitmason.blogspot.com/2020/04/podcast-if-linux-didnt-exist-would-we.html https://bitmason.blogspot.com/2020/04/podcast-if-linux-didnt... Bryan was basically of the opinion that if Linus hadn't written Linux, BSD would have come to the fore somehow in spite of its baggage. (I also cut that discussion into a longer series: http://bitmason.blogspot.com/2020/05/podcast-was-open-source-inevitable-part.html http://bitmason.blogspot.com/2020/05/podcast-was-open-source...)