Comment by patrickg_zill

7 years ago

Sun was helping open source before Linux existed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunsite

In the early 90’s, sure, Sun was somewhat friendly. In the 2000’s and onward? Not so much.

  • Could you cite some examples? Dtrace and ZFS were both open sourced during this time period IIRC.

    • IIRC, the licenses for those were rather hostile, even if technically “Open Source”.