“Eventually, Sun is likely to make Solaris an open-source
product, Bernard said. Last month, the company made a tentative
move on the path to free availability of the OS, with a
community-source license for Solaris.’
“The suggestion is that open source would be a good thing
for Solaris,” Bernard said. “However, there are trade-offs to the
open-source model in terms of intellectual property … and the
stability, predictability, and support needed in a production
environment.“
“Bernard argued that looking at Sun as either being open or
completely closed, in terms of its attitude toward the open-source
development model, is the wrong way to think about what the company
is trying to do.”
“We’re somewhere along the path to open source,” Bernard said.
“We will increasingly get there.”