Re:Remembering Unix Desktops – and What We Can Learn from Them
by irusensei on Sunday January 28, 2024 @05:38AM
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Sad part is to know how many great ideas have been crushed by circumstance or bad decisions. Just imagine all the cool stuff we could have today if companies like SGI and Be had survived. Even Sun was giving the world things like ZFS and OpenSolaris before Oracle killed it.
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Re:Remembering Unix Desktops – and What We Can Learn from Them
by pjmlp on Sunday January 28, 2024 @05:58AM
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Has Oracle killed it, or everyone else that didn't care for Sun's assets leaving Oracle as the only bidder left?
How much responsibility carries Google by torpedoing Sun with Android, IBM for withdrawing their offer, everyone else for not caring?
Re:Remembering Unix Desktops – and What We Can Learn from Them
by danieldk on Sunday January 28, 2024 @08:27AM
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Yeah, even when Sun made Solaris open source, not a lot of people cared. It spawned a small number of derivative distributions, but it barely got any traction. By that the time Sun open sourced Solaris Linux had long won the server market and the small FLOSS desktop niche.