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Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN
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JEDIDIAH |
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Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN |
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Wed, 25 Aug 2004 06:42:00 -0500 |
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On 2004-08-24, UNIX admin <tripivceta@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> If SUN is going to Open source Solaris, the *only* viable license IS
>> the GPL, for the REASON that all the enterprise code could be put INTO
>> LINUX. Yes, I know that sounds counter-intuitive, but that is the
>> only way Open sourcing Solaris would work, because then the Linux
>> people could port Solaris goodies into Linux and then Linux would run
>> on every expensive highend SUN box.
>
> I hope that doesn't happen, because that would mean taking a perfectly good
> OS and shoving it into a wannabe-UNIX with an identity crisis.
Expensive highend SUN boxes are overrated to begin with. Plus, they simply
don't scale well economically.
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- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, (continued)
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, John D Groenveld, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Richard L. Hamilton, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Christopher Browne, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Casper H . S . Dik, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Christopher Browne, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Casper H . S . Dik, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Peter Bunclark, 2004/08/27
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Gunthar, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Richard Steiner, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, UNIX admin, 2004/08/28
Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN,
JEDIDIAH <=
Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Richard L. Hamilton, 2004/08/24
Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Rui Miguel Seabra, 2004/08/25
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