Despite anti-Oracle hysteria, firm is an Open Source powerhouse

“Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, one of the IT industry´s
most hard-working firms in the fight for open standards and against
the Redmond juggernaut, the Evil Empire of Redmondia. Sun was also
one of the most unrecognised firms by FOSS pundits, despite its
vast contributions to the open source movement, be it in the form
of developers on Sun´s payroll collaborating with FOSS
projects -from Gnome to MySQL to OpenOffice.org to you-name-it, and
also when taking into account the hundreds of thousands of lines of
proprietary code turned to open source.

“Yet, the Slashdotter crowd always had a reason to pick on Sun
Micro because – oh the horror – they also wanted to make a profit
with Free Software and OSS, or just because they had a crown jewel,
Solaris, that wasn´t released under the GPL as the FOSS mob
wished. Many in that crowd also chastised AOL for years, despite
that fact that the firm supported Netscape programmers working on
Mozilla.org and open web standards.”

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