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Sun software was for a long time closed source, their turn to open source was more like a hail mary rather than some deeply held belief. I'd say that 1990s, 20
by The_Colonel 2y ago
Sun software was for a long time closed source, their turn to open source was more like a hail mary rather than some deeply held belief.
I'd say that 1990s, 2000s google was pretty cool, but it turned evil quite quickly.
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- simonblack 2y agoWhen Solaris 2 came out, they gave us the choice to buy their C compiler or to install the free-of-charge open-source gcc. There was no pressure to buy. If we were private users rather than corporate users, that was especially the case. And a lot of Java stuff was sold to us for a very nominal sum (probably just the cost of production).
- The_Colonel 2y ago> There was no pressure to buy. With the caveat that you had to buy Solaris.
- simonblack 2y agoWell, yes, but you had Solaris 2 in the first place or you didn't need either Sun's compiler or gcc at all.
- invalidname 2y agoSun took a while to change the model but went bigger on OSS than any other company by a mile. They published their code but not under an OSS license. Since Schmidt was the CTO of Sun Google inherited some of its culture. But that faded away.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> Sun took a while to change the model but went bigger on OSS than any other company by a mile. They published their code but not under an OSS license. ? The big one I know about was OpenSolaris under CDDL; what non-OSS licenses did they use?
- invalidname 2y agoE.g. source for the JDKs Java classes shipped with the JDK well before the open sourcing of the JDK. It had the click through download license.