SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code

Re:SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code by TheRealDunkirk on Thursday December 31, 2020 @09:12PM (#25600121)

Commercial Unix suffered from a lack of vision. They could have made version to run on x86, but they basically conceded to the low end to Linux. They were too busy making money from selling super-expensive RISC-based machines.

Solaris had a good version, which I used for a time, while I was running a data center full of Sparc equipment. All the user space stuff was happening in Linux-land. Solaris x86 had a nice repo for various packages, but there was always something you wanted that wasn't there. It got really close, though.

If one of the bigs would have gotten serious about packaging up, say, Debian's userland stuff, they could have put a serious dent in Red Hat, and maybe things would have played out differently.

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Re:SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code by pjmlp on Friday January 01, 2021 @03:12AM (#25601674)

They were also thwarted by the GPL, had Linux never came into the scene, the BSDs would never been as big as Linux became.

If at all, they would just cherry pick stuff out of them as they were already doing anyway.

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