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by lazyguy2
2474 days ago
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Illumos and friends are effectively dead, except as hobbies for enthusiasts. Sun Microsystems, now Oracle, didn't like the reception Open Solaris got so they packed up their source code and went home. Which is really a shame. All 'True' Unixes are just closed source versions of what originally were open source operating systems. By taking copyright seriously and having the misconception that there is intrinsic value in 'IP' they effectively sentenced their operating systems and investors to a long term grave. But I doubt most of them feel bad about it. They got their millions and their nice fat retirements. It doesn't matter now if customers now view their once dominate systems as a sort of technical debt cancer. If it wasn't for the destructive power that copyright has on technology and the demands of board members to monetize Unix.. we would all be using BSD right now. Unfortunately the tech people from 30 years ago didn't understand the power of 'letting go' and thus allowed them to destroy Unix. As far as docker goes it has a lot of momentum as a daemon and it'll probably stay that way for a long time despite some technically superior solutions for running containers that have cropped up in the past few years. The newer container solutions just don't have the community backing them and that matters. |
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