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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by patrickg_zill on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:59PM (#18323161)
Sun was helping open source before Linux existed.

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

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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by teddyh on Monday October 29, 2018 @07:32AM (#18326590)
In the early 90’s, sure, Sun was somewhat friendly. In the 2000’s and onward? Not so much.
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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by patrickg_zill on Monday October 29, 2018 @08:17AM (#18326845)
Could you cite some examples? Dtrace and ZFS were both open sourced during this time period IIRC.
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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by teddyh on Monday October 29, 2018 @11:47AM (#18328436)
IIRC, the licenses for those were rather hostile, even if technically “Open Source”.
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