Linux Magazine: A Solaris Carol

"Boy, do I hate the holidays. Tacky Christmas decorations strewn over lawns, holiday mind-control music piped into shopping malls, and the last minute need to drive the economy with conspicuous consumption. People are irritable, depressed, and frustrated, and they vent by giving you really horrendous gifts--like the Common Development and Distribution License, a wonderful, new, GPL-incompatible license that Sun Microsystems will use to distribute Solaris as open source. Dammit! Don't we have enough of these stupid licenses anyway? All we need is four or five of them, tops...!"

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