Post AzTjVdo69wYrlJXLTU by danmcd@hostux.social
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 (DIR) Post #AzTUitmQaJ51kncRmK by danmcd@hostux.social
       2025-10-22T17:48:45Z
       
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       I wonder... now that we've seen Red Hat under IBM's auspices for a few years, how would have IBM buying Sun (instead of Oracle) back in the day panned out?#opensolaris #solaris #illumos
       
 (DIR) Post #AzTUuypVdTaUtFoz4K by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2025-10-22T17:53:54.349329Z
       
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       @danmcd I guess we'd still have ended up with OpenIndiana anyway, but at least OpenSolaris would probably still be a thing (and still open-source), probably just extremely enterprise.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzTVDVagZPRhi0irz6 by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2025-10-22T17:57:15.537049Z
       
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       @danmcd One that I'd wonder about though is whether ZFS, dtrace, … would have been relicensed from CDDL to something else like say MPL-2.0
       
 (DIR) Post #AzTjVdo69wYrlJXLTU by danmcd@hostux.social
       2025-10-22T20:36:14Z
       
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       @lanodan The original @triton_dc folks when they were open-sourcing things went MPL 2.0, so that's not unrealistic IMHO.