[OpenIndiana-discuss] cost of putting Solaris 10 open source?

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If the cost is quantified it would only be an estimate...the strategy for
sun was market penetration and development of a work bench from which to
sell evolutionary products including support... The longer term policy was
interrupted by the different priorities set by oracle.....

On Sat, 1 Mar 2025, 22:23 Rolf M. Dietze, <rmd at orbit.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this might be an unusual question in this
> group, but I have no idea whom to ask. So
> does anyone know what putting Solaris 10
> open source did cost Sun Microsystems?
>
> There are a lot of companies that had to
> be delt with. SCO I guess, but didn't Sun
> had a proper License from them anyway?
> What about Microsoft. I remember that pub-
> licizing ls(1) had an issue with Microsoft
> and ACLs. Does any one have a clue?
> I remember some presentations that this
> topic was mentioned, but don't remember
> which presentations and when
>
> /Rolf
>
>
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