Computerworld: Open-Source Foes

"Yes, Sun Microsystems' new OpenSolaris really is an open-source project. And no, it's not likely to be much like the Linux open-source project. How are they alike? Both projects will produce a production-grade version of Unix, including source code, that we'll be able to download and use without paying for. So from where corporate IT sits, there's lots of similarity.

"But where OpenSolaris and Linux came from, how they're licensed, how the code can be used--that's all different, in some cases very different. And yes, that may matter to IT after all..."

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