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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I don't understand what you expected and why you're setting
this up as Sun against the 'community'. Not everybody uses the
GPL or thinks it's the most appropriate license. There are
many open source licenses. As I said in an earlier post,
Sun chose a license it felt was best for it's own (and it's
shareholders needs). This wasn't just an exercise to put a
tick in the box next to open source for comparing against a
linux distribution.
If you wan't to use Suns code and patents use the CDDL. If you
wanted to lift code straight into linux (kernel) then you are out of
luck because the gpl does not permit this.
It's not community against community and I think it's very
disingenious of you to say so.