Sun Mulling GPL for Solaris

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.

Comments

Wrong month, guys.

[Piquan]

Okay, last time: 5 is May. I think you meant this to be on 4/1.

What kind of impact would this have ?

[kfg]

Getting sued by SCO?

KFG

I'll believe it when I see it.

[JessLeah]

With that out of the way: This would be a powerful argument against the whole "lol but ur open sores software is only made by teh hobyists and not by teh proffesional programrz at big corpz" line of BS regularly spouted off by corp types and their toadies, the MCSEs and MIS/management types.

Re:Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

More like "they can't even give it away"

Sun confused? Never!

[Anonymous Coward]

"Unfortunately, I think Sun is going to have to be a little bit more thoughtful about the way they articulate their thinking, because they have a lot of users confused," Weiss said.

Sun are sending a confusing message you say? Say it ain't so! Why everyone knows that Sun lovehates GPLBSDMicrost what with their embracing openclosed standards. I've always thoguht they've given a very clear message, and that message is:

"Um, we're not quite sure. Could you get back to us in six months perhaps?"

Microsoft will never consent to it

[Anonymous Coward]

There will be one phone call:

(ring ring)
scott: "hello?"
bill: "what the fuck are you doing?!"
Scott (sweating, scared): "well I, err, I just, thought. ..."
bill (slow calm and menacing): "yes?..."
scott (smiles): "I'm going to fire the fucking idiot who aired this dumb idea in public."
bill: "have a nice day."
scott: "yea, thanks bill. Thanks."

(ring ring)
scott: "have someone in marketing killed and his hands delivered to Bill Gates"
lackey thug: "It's done."

Re:Microsoft will never consent to it

[Anonymous Coward]

That was two phone calls :P

Re:Microsoft will never consent to it

[geeklawyer]

Yes but I calculated it in Excel :)

Just what we need.

[ebbomega]

Now RMS can go on crusades to let the world know it's not Solaris, it's GNU/Solaris.

Re:Just wondering.

[TiMac]

Spray

Re:Reunification

[Minna Kirai]

"AIE" sounds kind of interesting,

I always found "aches" perfectly appropriate as the name of the system's software.

Re:Just wondering.

[corsec67]

The only problem with you signature is that it is a lawsuit waiting to happen. If one fails you don't want to do the rest. that would be very bad.
you want to use && instead of ;