Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN

[Robin KAY]

Frank Cusack wrote:
> UNIX admin wrote:
>> Mike Cox wrote:
> > > If SUN is going to Open source Solaris, the *only* viable license IS
> > > the GPL, for the REASON that all the enterprise code could be put INTO
> > > LINUX.  Yes, I know that sounds counter-intuitive, but that is the
> > > only way Open sourcing Solaris would work, because then the Linux
> > > people could port Solaris goodies into Linux and then Linux would run
> > > on every expensive highend SUN box.
> >
> > I hope that doesn't happen, because that would mean taking a perfectly good
> > OS and shoving it into a wannabe-UNIX with an identity crisis.
>
> It's already happening (lxrun, and now Janus).  How is more compatibility
> bad?

The quoted text doesn't refer to Linux source and binary compatibility 
under Solaris but rather to the transplant of Solaris code into Linux.

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--Robin Kay-- (komadori)