eWeek: Enterprise Customers Question Sun’s Open-Solaris Efforts

“One open-source expert, however, said he sees no reason for Sun
to create a new open-source license for Solaris. ‘Most of the new
licenses we’ve seen in the last five years are acts of vanity that
didn’t actually solve any substantive or legal problems,’ said Eric
Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative, in Malvern,
Pa.

“Although Sun has not approached the nonprofit corporation,
Raymond said the OSI would ‘be happy to cooperate with them when
and if they choose to do so. We have quite a lot of experience at
fitting the various standard licenses to whatever open-source
business model a corporation wants to choose…'”

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