Sun used to boast that it was one of the largest contributors to open source. That’s being demonstrated now that Oracle has acquired the company. Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and subsequent layoffs, are having ripple effects on the open source community. The cuts are also hitting the GNOME accessibility (a11y) team and leading the project to think about the future of a11y efforts in GNOME.
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