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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 17th Aug 2006 02:54 UTC, submitted by george

OpenSolaris isn't a true open-source project, but rather a "facade," because Sun Microsystems doesn't share control of it with outsiders, executives from rival IBM say.

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RE: IBM is being petty

by rcsteiner on Thu 17th Aug 2006 15:24 UTC in reply to "IBM is being petty"

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2005-07-12

OS/2 apparently has many IP encumberances, many of them involving Microsoft. While some of OS/2's tech has been released as open source (JFS2 comes to mind), the chances of the rest of OS/2 being released are low due to those
issues.

I don't know if AIX has similar issues or not...?

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RE[2]: IBM is being petty

by Robert Escue on Thu 17th Aug 2006 16:11 in reply to "RE: IBM is being petty"

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2005-07-08

IBM would have the same (if not more so) legal issues as Sun did in creating OpenSolaris. Of course the Linux fans seem to forget that in their zeal to point out the shortcomings of OpenSolaris.

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RE[3]: IBM is being petty

by twenex on Thu 17th Aug 2006 22:29 in reply to "RE[2]: IBM is being petty"

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2006-04-21

Try "in their zeal to point out that Sun is being economical with the truth" about open-source. Sun's relationship with FOSS is and always has been schizophrenic at best (witness NeWS vs. NFS).

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