It's my understanding that it was Dec engineers that worked on NT's kernel. I read it recently. The people involved with NT were people who worked on VMS.
Sun is one of the best corporate partners open source developers can have.
If we just look at StarOffice, the cost of buying, rengineering then forking it over to OpenOffice is huge in and of itself. Even if they did keep part of the changes to themselves. A sophisticated Office suite that is compatible with MS Office products is what Linux needed as a shot in the arm for wider desktop acceptability. This alone is a major contribution.
In addition Sun has hundreds of people working Gnome, Mozilla, JXTA, Tomcat, Netbeans (Another bought and open sourced project), Grid Engine and more.
They're damn chip architecture is open, available for free without royalties. The have shared source Java and working to open source it.
Sun has the most popular Unix package around, they have been in this space for decades. Linux can benefit plenty from Sun and Sun is becoming more and more willing to help.
The only backstabbers I see are you people that go off attacking Sun after reading something that's been misquoted.
Sun is one of the best corporate partners open source developers can have.
If we just look at StarOffice, the cost of buying, rengineering then forking it over to OpenOffice is huge in and of itself. Even if they did keep part of the changes to themselves. A sophisticated Office suite that is compatible with MS Office products is what Linux needed as a shot in the arm for wider desktop acceptability. This alone is a major contribution.
In addition Sun has hundreds of people working Gnome, Mozilla, JXTA, Tomcat, Netbeans (Another bought and open sourced project), Grid Engine and more.
The only backstabbers I see are you people that go off attacking Sun after reading something that's been misquoted.
Your an idiot. They said they're pausing the change in their strategy. They didn't say they are dropping support for linux. Sun has the right to continue work with linux because of they bought out their license for Unix unlike IBM.
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It's my understanding that it was Dec engineers that worked on NT's kernel. I read it recently. The people involved with NT were people who worked on VMS.
If we just look at StarOffice, the cost of buying, rengineering then forking it over to OpenOffice is huge in and of itself. Even if they did keep part of the changes to themselves. A sophisticated Office suite that is compatible with MS Office products is what Linux needed as a shot in the arm for wider desktop acceptability. This alone is a major contribution.
In addition Sun has hundreds of people working Gnome, Mozilla, JXTA, Tomcat, Netbeans (Another bought and open sourced project), Grid Engine and more.
They're damn chip architecture is open, available for free without royalties. The have shared source Java and working to open source it.
Sun has the most popular Unix package around, they have been in this space for decades. Linux can benefit plenty from Sun and Sun is becoming more and more willing to help.
The only backstabbers I see are you people that go off attacking Sun after reading something that's been misquoted.
Sun is one of the best corporate partners open source developers can have. If we just look at StarOffice, the cost of buying, rengineering then forking it over to OpenOffice is huge in and of itself. Even if they did keep part of the changes to themselves. A sophisticated Office suite that is compatible with MS Office products is what Linux needed as a shot in the arm for wider desktop acceptability. This alone is a major contribution. In addition Sun has hundreds of people working Gnome, Mozilla, JXTA, Tomcat, Netbeans (Another bought and open sourced project), Grid Engine and more. The only backstabbers I see are you people that go off attacking Sun after reading something that's been misquoted.
Your an idiot. They said they're pausing the change in their strategy. They didn't say they are dropping support for linux. Sun has the right to continue work with linux because of they bought out their license for Unix unlike IBM.