From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: brad@anduin.eldar.org (Brad Spencer) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 13:41:10 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Early Clones / Rewrites for TUHS archives In-Reply-To: (message from Toby Thain on Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:41:07 -0500) Message-ID: Toby Thain writes: > On 2017-12-18 12:35 PM, Steve Simon wrote: >> >> maybe i am wrong but i thought QNX was open source for a while, but then >> it changed hands and the new owners “removed it from the internet”. >> >> interestingly if this is true its only the 2nd time i have heard of this >> happening ever happening. the other one was years ago with the Khronos >> dataflow signal processing system. > > What about Solaris. > > --T > Depends on your point of view a bit.... One can probably say that Oracle Solaris has been "pulled back". But, Solaris has sufficiently escaped in a form that is still open source, if you ignore Oracle. The company which is my $DAYJOB uses Joyent Triton SmartOS, which is very Solaris in every way and completely open source. We run a couple of farily large private clouds with it. -- Brad Spencer - brad at anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS http://anduin.eldar.org - & - http://anduin.ipv6.eldar.org [IPv6 only]