Bill Joy: The Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems Who Unleashed the Open-Source Revolution
Bill Joy: The Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems Who Unleashed the Open-Source Revolution Open-source software has forever changed the way we think about creativity and collaboration. Before the rise of open-source software, companies held all the power. But Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, helped spark an era of collaboration that is now commonplace in the technology world. Joy founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim. He was not only the driving force behind the company's technical path, but he also wrote the company's first business plan and art direction specs. He also worked as CTO of Sun until 2003. Joy was the creator of Berkeley Unix, a simplified version of Unix. Berkeley Unix was then used to create the popular operating system, Solaris. The release of Solaris triggered the open-source revolution which allowed independent developers and software companies to contribute to software projects. This gave develope...