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.

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MS and SCO would throw a riot

[Billly Gates]

Remember SCO owns Unix, and MS owns %10 of SCO.

There is also large amounts of code from proprietary 3rd party vendors. You can not just opensource Unix, hence why GNU came along.