April 19, 2005
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The SCO Group CEO reveals that the company’s been made aware of Sun’s plans to open-source Solaris and approves of them. For more than a year, Sun Microsystems Inc. has inched its way towards the release of an open-source version … Continue reading
February 3, 2005
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One of classic Star Treks best episodes was “Mirror, Mirror” For those of you who have somehow managed not to see it, in this episode Kirk, McCoy, Uhuru and Scotty are caught by an ion storm in mid-beam-up and end … Continue reading
October 5, 2004
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Software patents are bad for both open- and closed-source developers, not to mention for anyone who buys software. Isn’t it time we get rid of them once and for all? Open-source and proprietary developers have at least one enemy in … Continue reading
September 13, 2004
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Dear Sun, Since your president and COO is so fond of open letters, I thought I might deliver one of my own. On Monday, at a press conference in Burlington, Mass., you announced that you were open-sourcing Solaris 10. You … Continue reading
May 23, 2004
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Back when we built computers with stone knives and bear skins—OK, 1993—I reviewed the first version of Solaris for Intel for PC Magazine. I liked it. I also noticed at the time that Solaris on Intel wasnt the equal of … Continue reading
January 6, 2004
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Sun Microsystems Inc. is ending its Cobalt server product line, but thats not the end of the Cobalt story. Sun has elected to release the Cobalt RaQ 550 server appliance source code under a Berkeley style open-source license, thus giving … Continue reading