Category Archives: Solaris

On reverse-engineering, patents and open source.

Bryan Cantrill, kernel engineer extraordinaire and co-author of Dtrace, blogged his thoughts about reverse-engineering and patents in the context of Linus moving the Linux kernel souce code mgmt system from BitKeeper. I (like many engineers, I suspect) view reverse engineering … Continue reading

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Why IBM won't certify products for x86 Solaris 10

Sun is mad at IBM. Sun’s President and COO Jonathan Schwartz even wrote an angry letter to our CEO Sam Palmisano last Friday. Understandably. This eWeek report from the 17th of January states that IBM’s refused to “test, certify and … Continue reading

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