"Last week, we made passing note of Sun's announcement that it would be releasing Solaris as some kind of open source software--some time, somehow. We did so amid a flood of other announcements from the company of more pressing and immediate interest.
"'Three years ago,' we wrote, 'this would have been like Nixon going to China. Now? [...] It's only a matter of time before the operating system doesn't offer anything users can't find in Linux or a BSD...'"
