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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. Ummm I thought hardware was going to be free by Mandrias · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Ok so now Sun is saying that they will open source Solaris? I thought we just had a story on how Sun says software is going to be all subscription based and the hardware will be free... hmmm

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  2. Wait, I thought the hardware would be free? by Bravid98 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Didn't Sun just get done saying that in the future hardware would be free and that we would pay subscription fees for software? This doesn't make sense at all. Why would you open source something if you're planning on making money selling a subscription?

    We've already seen how this hasn't worked all that great for RedHat; instead of using up2date people are using yum and apt-get. Something isn't right with this picture...

    Anyone want to take bets on when Sun will start suing claiming linux stole its source code in violation of their psuedo GPL?

  3. So Which Is It? by Seanasy · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Are they giving away hardware and selling software or selling hardware and giving away software?

    I think Sun is getting a bit senile in it's old age.