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Sun Opens Cobalt Code

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the users-not-blue-any-more dept.

Bush Kanaka writes "It looks like Sun has released the user interface and back-end custom code for the Cobalt Raq550 under a BSD-like licence. The BIOS code is also, apparently, now open source and is being maintained by Sun engineer Duncan Laurie in his own time. This has to be good news for all those Cobalt devotees who were annoyed when Sun killed off Cobalt last month, but is anybody going to actually pick up the software and start making their own Cobalt clones?"

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  1. Re:Cobalt versus... by gantrep · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Am I the only one sick of jokes that take the form of contrived misreadings?

  2. Re:Cobalt versus... by tomstdenis · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    True that. Maybe these "am the only one who read that as..." people should learn how to fucking read.

    Tom

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  3. Re:Cobalt versus... by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you're time is so precious why bother wasting the time to make an obvious joke that isn't funny? Or in your lingo

    Was it just me or did I read "I'm a big hypocrite" out of that...

    Tom

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