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		justincormack on Sept 3, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a class... But it was already open sourced once before, so much of that work was done already.

Someone on Sept 3, 2017 [–]

Valid point, so here is a similar, but different reason: patents.

They may fear releasing the source opens them for patent lawsuits or may have patents they aren't willing to give up, and fear that open sourcing it without any patent clause will not give them much goodwill.

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