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Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide
Bryan Cantrill
Bryan Cantrill's OSCON 2015 talk on moving a proprietary product to open source, drawing on Sun's history with Solaris and illumos, licensing choices and the relicensing after Oracle's acquisition.
HN commenters cite it for the history of open source at Sun and Oracle, and for Cantrill's explanation of licensing choices.
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