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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