Sun announced in Pittsburgh at the Super Computing Consortium that it would release Solaris 10 as open-source as they resolve licensing issues with different vendors who have contributed to the OS. I take that as we won't see a true open source Solaris for years if ever... Ryan -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 2:01 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: sun solaris .vs linux On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:45:14AM -0800, Greg Bradner wrote: > A little news: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5450749.html http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3430661 "There are limitations to what we can do," Weinberg [Glenn Weinberg, vice president of the Operating Platforms Group at Sun] said. "We don't own all the IP rights to Solaris. There are things we have from third parties we don't have rights to yet, or third parties don't want us to expose source code." And Sun's freedom comes at a price. You must register with Sun to even use the product. That doesn't sound like you can give your friend a copy like you can (and should!) with Fedora. Who knows what else you have to give up to use it? In any case, open source Solaris is currently vaporware. Until it is available, there's not a lot of point talking about it. People like me don't get to see the proposed license agreements. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
