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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. Re:good or bad? by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I think that I've finally found a good application for Clippy the paperclip:

    "It looks like you're trying to use the word 'loose' in a sentence. This is probably not what you want. Would you like me to help?"

  2. Re:apple and legos by cheese_wallet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As an ASIC designer who has worked on chips for the large systems like Sun makes, I can tell you from first hand experience that you don't "slap together" these hardware systems.

    I hate replying to anonymous posts because it feels like I'm talking to a wall. But on the odd chance that you might read a reply, and for the edification of anyone else who cares, I'll post a retort.

    I don't know how this topic got so side-railed, but I said it before and I'll say it again, I was talking about systems, not silicon. Okay?

    I was replying in the context of the quote from sun saying "We have hardware, storage, services and support". Good grief, who doesn't? Is it that hard to build a raid box? No. Is it that hard to build a workstation? No. Heck, I can go to compusa and get a dual G5 for less money than this HP PA-RISC workstation under my desk, and it would make the HP look like a glorified print server.

    Gee whiz, your an ASIC designer. Guess what? So am I. How 'bout them apples.