Sun Microsystems is set to license OpenSolaris under the upcoming GNU GPLv3 in addition to the existing Common Development and Distribution License, sources close to the company have told eWEEK. "The next version of Solaris will include things like GNU Userland, which is already being attempted with OpenSolaris, while open-source solutions from other communities for things like package management also look very promising. Dual-licensing OpenSolaris with GPLv3 could make this even easier," said a source who declined to be named.
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Member since:2006-09-21
pretty terrible conception about OSS. So your fear is that Linux could better Solaris. Preatty weak.
Isn't that the same sentiment behind ReactOS? To create a Windows clone--to take all the favorable things about Windows and use it in your own OS?
Anyways, that is a valid concern. If linux took most of the features of Solaris, the things people identify as being Solaris, what would be the point of it anymore? I don't think it would be good for linux either. I'd like to see differentiation, diversity and fair competition.
For example, some of the kernel developers (including Linus's) attitudes were quite different a while ago.. there was no push towards crash dumping, kernel debugger, or dynamic tracing. But now look at it--all for the better. In fact System Tap was inspired by Dtrace and defining experiences the RedHat & Intel folks had out in the field in troubleshooting customers' systems who were also serviced by Sun engineers using dtrace.
And if it weren't for the "Slowaris" reputation Sun had a while ago before S10 and linux coming along and lighting the fire on Sun's asses, I doubt there would've been much improvement and nor would Sun care much for any performance comparisons
Member since:2005-07-20
pretty terrible conception about OSS. So your fear is that Linux could better Solaris. Preatty weak.
Isn't that the same sentiment behind ReactOS? To create a Windows clone--to take all the favorable things about Windows and use it in your own OS?
No, that's different, see... ReactOS isn't taking windows code to do it. There is absolutely nothing stopping the Linux folks from doing the exact same thing that ReactOS is doing... i.e. look at how things in Solaris are implemented, then writing their own implementation. Hell, you can even look at the code instead of trying to figure it out based on some programming API documentation... it should be all that much easier for them, right?
What hacks me off so much is that they are so damn unwilling to see this as an option. "But we want to use the code! WAH! WAH!"
How about you use the fact that it is, you know, open source, to see how they did it, then do it on your own?
Oh, that would be work, sorry...
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2005-07-06
pretty terrible conception about OSS. So your fear is that Linux could better Solaris. Preatty weak.