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

Re:Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

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

[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.