by Bryan Cantrill.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/leaping-the-chasm-from-proprietary-to-open-a-survivors-guide.
Full illumos history mentioned in talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
Corporate open source anti-patterns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm8P4oCIY3g
Very high energy presentation starting with the early history of software. Great coverage of the history of Solaris.
My favorite quip:
Every thing you think about Oracle is true, is actually truer than you think it could be.
You will greatly enjoy the disclaimer story.
Natural law wrong. – “…assertion that APIs can be copyrighted!”
Opensource projects by Joyent:
SmartDataCenter: https://github.com/joyent/sdc
Manta: https://github.com/joyent/manta
My take away? Despite all the amusing stories and tales, I would have to pick “use a weak copy-left license.”