What Bryan Cantrill thinks about open source
Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Bryan Cantrill has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsin all manners of systems software, the leading edge of innovation is in deployed, production, open source systems.