Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Apr 2007 23:08 UTC, submitted by irbis
"Amid falling sales of its bread-and-butter servers and mounting pressure on Schwartz to cut more jobs and boost a stock price that's dropped more than 22%, to USD 5.26, since early February, Sun is considering its most radical open-source move yet: releasing Solaris under the love-it-or-hate-it GPL. The move could reinvigorate Sun by putting one of its crown jewels into the thick of the open-source movement - or it could diminish the worth of one of Sun's most valuable pieces of intellectual property."
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Some of the comments here are about how Sun is able to distribute SysV code as part of Opensolaris. The reason they are able to do this is because they actually bought out their Unix license for quite a large sum of money. Likewise I believe HP did this as well with HP-UX.
Neither IBM or SGI bought out their Unix licenses as a result SCO threatned to revoke SGI's unix license (for Irix) and issued a revokation on IBM's license. Of course no body paid any attention.