Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 14th Jun 2005 04:11 UTC
Sun Microsystems is expected to release Solaris as open-source software Tuesday, a centerpiece of the company's plan to regain lost relevance and fend of rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft. 
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If a programmer takes a piece of OpenSolaris code out of OpenSolaris and incorporates it into another project, that programmer will get a blanket patent grant, he said. OpenSolaris or other CDDL code may be used in proprietary projects or in open-source projects covered by CDDL and several other licenses, including BSD and Mozilla licenses, Goguen said.
What is there more to say?
This is also positiv:
OpenSolaris also comes with intellectual property rights not found in Linux, though some including IBM, Red Hat and now Nokia have pledged not to sue if they find Linux infringes their patents.
These are interesting times.What is needed is a tough healthy competition.Allthough i most of the times use Linux
to tackle my goals i allways like to see the OS horizon evolve and getting new "members".