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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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Working for, but definitely not speaking for, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Rich Teer, 2004/08/23
Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, UNIX admin, 2004/08/24