On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM Rolf M. Dietze <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > this might be an unusual question in this > group, but I have no idea whom to ask. So > does anyone know what putting Solaris 10 > open source did cost Sun Microsystems? > That question isn't well defined. What do you include? I think you're referring to the cost of obtaining licenses and copyright from all the companies who had rights in various components of Solaris. My recollection is that was about $400m in total (but that's just my memory of a meeting I was in more than 20 years ago). But Sun would have done that anyway - they very much wanted control of their own destiny, and not to be in a position where a 3rd-party could hold them hostage - so that shouldn't be charged directly to the open source effort. > There are a lot of companies that had to > be delt with. SCO I guess, but didn't Sun > had a proper License from them anyway? > What about Microsoft. I remember that pub- > licizing ls(1) had an issue with Microsoft > and ACLs. Does any one have a clue? > I remember some presentations that this > topic was mentioned, but don't remember > which presentations and when > > /Rolf > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
