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Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide

Bryan Cantrill · talk · Watch on YouTube

Software practice, open source & careersLinux & open-source ecosystemsOperating systems & kernels

What it is

Bryan Cantrill's OSCON 2015 talk on moving a proprietary product to open source, drawing on Sun's history with Solaris and illumos, licensing choices and the relicensing after Oracle's acquisition.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters cite it for the history of open source at Sun and Oracle, and for Cantrill's explanation of licensing choices.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
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What HN commenters said

  1. “As usual Bryan Cantrill is just brilliant at explaining stuff.”

    Cantrill explains why the GPL was unsuitable for Sun.

    znpy, 2020-08 · Strong recommendation · in “OpenZFS Merged to FreeBSD”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: bryan cantrill, opensolaris, illumos, licensing, oracle

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