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Sun COO Schwartz Promises Open Source Solaris

Posted by timothy on from the big-welcome-sign-but-which-license dept.

Alapan writes "According to C-Net Asia, Sun plans to make Solaris open source soon. While I hardly expect Sun to make it GPL compatible, I wonder how much restrictions Sun will place on distributing modified solaris systems. And will we some integration of Solaris' strong points into other open source OSes like Linux and BSD?" Update: 06/02 14:16 GMT by T : Correction: Schwartz is Sun's COO and President, but not CEO (as the headline originally had it).

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  1. priceless by evocate · · Score: 5, Funny

    sun hardware: $0
    solaris: $0
    java: $0

    watching the Sun go down: priceless

  2. Re:God, I hope not. by mbonar · · Score: 5, Funny

    "else we'll have a dozen forks that won't play nice with each other." That's what we have now. They're called JDK releases.

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