Sun Opens Cobalt Code

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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So how long before SCO gets ahold of this?

[Fortunato_NC]

I mean, think of all the $$$ in license fees that can be extorted, I mean, earned from users of this newly open sourced platform that probably steals heavily from UNIX contributions by licensees and not actual work performed by SCO...

Re:What do you do with a dead Cobalt cube?

[zmooc]

Indeed. It should fit.