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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. Probably not GPL... by clifgriffin · · Score: -1, Troll

    And for good reason. The GPL is stupid. It's saying "Here's are code. But oh wait...you can only use it how we want."

    The BSD license is the best "Here's our code. Use it however you want. Please don't sue us."

    Now I don't expect Solaris to be released under either, I'm sure there's will be geared towards comforting those who love sing the same old tired out tune about open source software being inately more secure.

    So stop complaining, Sun is trying to convince /.'s that they do value Open Source values...but let's face it. Sun's business model can't support everything you're going to want.

    Take what you can get, and stop whining.

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  2. Re:Sun by XsynackX · · Score: -1, Troll

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  3. Re:I would be wary of this news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  4. Re:I would be wary of this news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    wtf are you retarded?

  5. Re:I would be wary of this news by XsynackX · · Score: -1, Troll

    what's ur Ip address. I'm going to hack j00. I hack up smoke. j00 betta ph33r me for I have r00t. ROOT I SAY!!!!

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