Comment on Ask HN: Was Sun Microsystems the last respectable tech company?parentComments−invalidname2ySun took a while to change the model but went bigger on OSS than any other company by a mile. They published their code but not under an OSS license.Since Schmidt was the CTO of Sun Google inherited some of its culture. But that faded away.−yjftsjthsd-h2ySun took a while to change the model but went bigger on OSS than any other company by a mile. They published their code but not under an OSS license.? The big one I know about was OpenSolaris under CDDL; what non-OSS licenses did they use?−invalidname2yE.g. source for the JDKs Java classes shipped with the JDK well before the open sourcing of the JDK. It had the click through download license.
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Sun took a while to change the model but went bigger on OSS than any other company by a mile. They published their code but not under an OSS license.
Since Schmidt was the CTO of Sun Google inherited some of its culture. But that faded away.
? The big one I know about was OpenSolaris under CDDL; what non-OSS licenses did they use?
E.g. source for the JDKs Java classes shipped with the JDK well before the open sourcing of the JDK. It had the click through download license.