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Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN


From: Alan Coopersmith
Subject: Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:01:13 +0000 (UTC)

mikecoxlinux@yahoo.com (Mike Cox) writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|Then why the hell should a linux advocate even care if SUN is going to
|Open Source Solaris?  

Perhaps they shouldn't.

|If a person who is not a SUN engineer/employee
|cannot make changes to the CVS or take code and put it in another OS
|(aka BSD license), then it has no value.

Maybe no value to you, but it still has lots of value to lots of other
people, even with those restrictions.

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