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		snovymgodym 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft’s original source code That's the point though. What's left of Sun is basically a startup founded by a few ex-employees, some open-source software, and the rest of their IP being milked by Larry Ellison.

zabzonk 9 months ago [–]

Neither SunOS or Solaris were open source, or based on open source.

snovymgodym 9 months ago | | [–]

I'm not talking about SunOS or Solaris. I'm talking about Java, dtrace, OpenZFS, and a various other random bits of Sun legacy still floating around in modern open-source systems.

mmooss 9 months ago | | [–]

Wasn't SunOS essentially a flavor or distro of Unix?

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