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Sun Mulling GPL for Solaris

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the but-not-anytime-soon dept.

comforteagle writes "According to this article in InfoWorld, Sun Microsystems is considering open sourcing Solaris by changing licenses to the GPL. What kind of impact would this have on those of you considering opting out of Unix for Linux? Red Hat and others have openly targeted Solaris users to switch." By the end of the article, the change seems rather unlikely to happen, but it's still interesting to see what changes this could bring about.

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  1. Diehard linuxers would shun it by Zetta+Matrix · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think that diehard linux people wouldn't go near it with a ten foot pole, unless to read the kernel source and borrow the things Solaris is particularly good at (scalability and performance at the high end) by implementing it in the Linux kernel. This would be a major win for Linux, and I feel a loss for Solaris (although they might get a popularity boost from the non-diehard linuxers).

  2. Re:switching by mattyrobinson69 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    you sir, are a bollock.

    i happen to like kde.