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A less clickbaity title: How I Found Out Sun Microsystems Was Selling My Open Source Tools Without My Permission

by geor9e 3y ago

Terretta 3y ago
That's clickbait since you are supposed to want to click to find out how. "Sun sales VP demoed me my own OSS DTrace Toolkit with attribution stripped."
- msdrigg 3y ago
  Hmm still clickbaity because you don't know how it happens. Better title: "This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. You can't make this stuff up. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. This gave performance analysts like myself X-ray vision. While I was busy writing and publishing advanced performance tools using DTrace (my open source DTraceToolkit and other DTrace tools, aka scripts), I noticed something odd: I was producing more DTrace tools than were coming out of Sun itself. Perhaps there was some internal project that was consuming all their DTrace expertise? DTraceToolkit v0.96 tools (2006) As I wasn't a Sun Microsystems employee I wasn't privy to Sun's internal projects. However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. Sun sometimes invited me to their own customer meetings and other events I might be interested in, as a local expert. I was living in Sydney, Australia. This time I was told that there was a Very Important Person visiting from the US whom I'd want to meet. I didn't recognize the name, but was told that he was a DTrace expert and developer at Sun, and was on a world tour demonstrating Sun's new DTrace-based product. Ah-hah – this must be the internal project! But this would be no ordinary project. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. This was going to be big, and would likely blow away my earlier DTrace work. The VIP was returning to Sydney for a few days before going to the next Australian city, so we agreed to meet at the Sun Sydney office. ...
  - rdlw 3y ago
    That's kind of long-winded. Maybe the title should just sum up what happens in the article, in a way that sort of gets your interest and makes you want to read the story. How about "An Unbelievable Demo"

A less clickbaity title: How I Found Out Sun Microsystems Was Selling My Open Source Tools Without My Permission

by geor9e 3y ago

A less clickbaity title: How I Found Out Sun Microsystems Was Selling My Open Source Tools Without My Permission

That's clickbait since you are supposed to want to click to find out how. "Sun sales VP demoed me my own OSS DTrace Toolkit with attribution stripped."

msdrigg 3y ago
Hmm still clickbaity because you don't know how it happens. Better title: "This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. You can't make this stuff up. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. This gave performance analysts like myself X-ray vision. While I was busy writing and publishing advanced performance tools using DTrace (my open source DTraceToolkit and other DTrace tools, aka scripts), I noticed something odd: I was producing more DTrace tools than were coming out of Sun itself. Perhaps there was some internal project that was consuming all their DTrace expertise? DTraceToolkit v0.96 tools (2006) As I wasn't a Sun Microsystems employee I wasn't privy to Sun's internal projects. However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. Sun sometimes invited me to their own customer meetings and other events I might be interested in, as a local expert. I was living in Sydney, Australia. This time I was told that there was a Very Important Person visiting from the US whom I'd want to meet. I didn't recognize the name, but was told that he was a DTrace expert and developer at Sun, and was on a world tour demonstrating Sun's new DTrace-based product. Ah-hah – this must be the internal project! But this would be no ordinary project. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. This was going to be big, and would likely blow away my earlier DTrace work. The VIP was returning to Sydney for a few days before going to the next Australian city, so we agreed to meet at the Sun Sydney office. ...
- rdlw 3y ago
  That's kind of long-winded. Maybe the title should just sum up what happens in the article, in a way that sort of gets your interest and makes you want to read the story. How about "An Unbelievable Demo"