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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.
Are they feeling like they're not part of SCOsuit bandwagon? There's got to be some protected IP in there of some sort - are they going to lift equivalents from various OSS projects or release it sans some of those elements that make it Solaris?
Dude, I love your sig. I was debating whether to comment or mod you up, and then I realised -- you're proud of your bad karma and I wouldn't want to take that pride away from you.
One burning question though: how on earth have you managed to get a -1 karma modifier anyway?!?
Standing at the very edge of my imagination, I peered into the inky void and realised -- I couldn't think up a new sig.
*Yawn*
after selling it to the devil for 2 billion.
Since you're in a candid frame of mind, let me ask a question that's on the minds of many Slashdotters: what fun is it being a troll? I'll stir the shit sometimes, just to see the kinds of reactions that I get. But what's interesting enough to you about trolling that you make a concerted effort to do so, enough that you know how to game the system? What have you learned from it? What's the payoff?
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