Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide

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Strong rec znpy · 2020-08 · on “OpenZFS Merged to FreeBSD”

There's a very interesting talk on the matter by Bryan Cantrill where he explained that the gpl was unsuitable for their scope for a number of valid reasons, including the fact that the gpl vitality would have affected indipendent hardware vendors too, iirc. And some more cases. I hope I didn't write bs, however here is the talk of you want to know more and with more details: [this video] (leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: a survivor's guide) As usual Bryan Cantrill is just brilliant at explaining stuff. Edit: just to be explicit: it was NOT about keeping stuff out of Linux.

Cites bcantrill · 2021-08 · on “Life Improvements Since the 1990s”

It's hard to know -- but something that definitely struck me was that we at Sun did much better technical work in the bust (2001-2005) than the boom (1997-2001). (It's hard to say anything definitive about this as there is so much there that's specific to Sun and the group of technologists I was working with, but it certainly didn't make me long for the boom!) As for the progression of software development, this may be trite to say, but in my opinion the single most important revolution in software is the rise of open source. I don't think that there was a single event here per se but rather a multi-decade long progression across many different domains that has changed just about every singl

Cites bcantrill · 2023-07 · on “What's wrong with enterprise Linux”

So, that rant actually predates Oracle v. Google. (For a bit of a history of my LISA talk that you quoted, and then my added color on Oracle v. Google see [0].) Oracle has shown everyone over and over again who they are; it shows how deep the mistrust in Red Hat has become that Oracle seems benign by comparison. [0] [this video]

Cites bcantrill · 2023-08 · on “OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform”

They definitely changed one of the licenses, and in fact in the most brazen way possible -- they relicensed OpenSolaris to proprietary![0][1] Your point stands, though: illumos very much outpaced and outlived it.[2] [0] [LINK] [1] [this video] [2] [LINK]

Cites bcantrill · 2023-10 · on “Ask HN: Is Oracle that much more evil than other big companies?”

Unsurprisingly -- and as happens almost reflexively on any HN post involving Oracle -- my talk from LISA 2011[0] has already been cited here. I expanded on that in my OSCON 2015 talk[1], to which I would add this: thinking about Oracle as "evil" is really the wrong way of thinking about them; to think of them as diabolical is to infuse the place with a kind of humanity (if crooked) that it doesn't necessarily contain. Oracle is soulless, which may or may not be worse than other companies, but it is decidedly different: however deluded they might be, Meta thinks that they are making the world a better place; Oracle not only doesn't harbor any such delusions, they are further genuinely confuse

Cites lloydde · 2024-01 · on “Helios: A distribution of Illumos powering the Oxide Rack”

MPL 2.0 has been the preferred license for CTO Bryan Cantrill and crew for more than a decade: “And because any conversation about open source has to address licensing at some point or another, let’s get that out of the way: we opted for the Mozilla Public License 2.0. While relatively new, there is a lot to like about this license: its file-based copyleft allows it to be proprietary-friendly while also forcing certain kinds of derived work to be contributed back; its explicit patent license discourages litigation, offering some measure of troll protection; its explicit warranting of original work obviates the need for a contributor license agreement (we’re not so into CLAs); and (best of al