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Not fully owning your own drivers/OS is something only a galaxy-brained MBA could think of.

Not necessarily.

Bryan Cantrill talked extensively about how long it took for Sun Microsystems to open source Solaris, and a lot came from code that was often outsources because it was "boring" and basically non-core tech (the example was i18n/l10n)

And they, you know, couldn't demand rights to the code of their own OS? Sounds like Sun had some galaxy-brainers of their own.

You can outsource while retaining ownership so that you can opensource it later if you want. Just need to pay for it and add it to the contract.

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