Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th Jan 2007 00:19 UTC
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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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...