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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Why doesn't Unix die?

[ObviousGuy]

Hopefully this signals an end to corporate Unices and a move towards more modern operating system concepts like those found in Plan9.

Let the hobbiests stick with Unix and bring the industry up to speed with the performance/usability gains found in the labs and classrooms.