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:Will Sun's Solaris put Linux in the shade?
Will Sun's Solaris put Linux in the shade?
May 10, 2007, 11 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (7642 reads)

(Other stories by Glyn Moody)

"Sun's chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, explains why the company chose the GPL: "We felt that the biggest impact that we could have on the Java market was by settling the long dispute with the GNU/Linux community." That dispute arose from licensing issues, which meant that rigorously open source systems were unable to include Java in their distributions. By adopting the GPL, Sun removed those problems at a stroke."

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As long as they license it under the GPL ...   Who cares?   
Frank Earl (aka Svartalf)
May 10, 2007, 15:17:20
 
I don't think OSOL will displace Lin ...   FOSS is FOSS   
Ronald Trip
May 10, 2007, 15:40:57
 
These Solaris stories are starting to be ...   The new prognostication   
JJS
May 10, 2007, 19:08:27
 
"As long as they license it under the GP ...   Re: Who cares?   
Jim
May 10, 2007, 19:32:15
 
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