The original article is short on detail, but the comments (yes, read the comments... this time) on Lobster about What Sun Microsystems Got Wrong are interesting.
I used to work with Sun when they sponsored UKUUG, they did some cool stuff, sent technical people to give technical talks (some sponsors didn't 'get' this), had useful swag and were pretty good with open source. Then Oracle bought them and it all went downhill from a community perspective.
https://lobste.rs/s/vwl2kn/what_sun_got_wrong
Paul
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