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CNN: Sun wants to ‘community source’ everything

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 19, 1999

“Sun Microsystems Inc. is working towards eventually “community
sourcing” as much of its software as possible, according to company
Co-founder and Chief Scientist Bill Joy.”

“Community sourcing means that Sun makes the source code for a
product publicly available so that developers can download the code
free of charge and make changes to it as long as they report back
to Sun any bugs they encounter.”

The Sun concept falls short of open source, as popularized
by the Linux community, where anyone can access the software and
amend it, whether for development or commercial use. Under the
community-sourcing model, Sun charges commercial users a license
fee.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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