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Which is useless unless Sun GPLs the Solaris Kernel

Solaris on x86 does not come close to the hardware device support of Linux. Sun cannot hope to catch up unless it adopts the same GPL lisence conditions for the Solaris Kernel
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/30/HNsolarisgpl_1.html

To quote myself
http://www.sys-con.com/story/print.cfm?storyid=45121
Releasing a fork of the Solaris Unix Kernel makes even more sense when you consider Sun's move towards commodity based hardware, like AMD's opteron, and enterprise desktop systems. Sun is going to need drivers to interoperate with x86 hardware and common peripherals. In comparison to Linux, the range and quality of hardware drivers available to Solaris is pitiful.

If Sun can manage to get out from under the SCO Group's claims over the old AT&T code base, by dealing direct with Novell who still appear to hold the rights and copyrights, then Sun would be free to release a fork of the Solaris kernel under the GPL license.

Sun would be then free to take any source code from the Linux kernel and incorporate it into the GPL'ed Solaris kernel fork. Sun would then free to deploy that kernel in desktop and clustered systems markets, where Linux currently does have a lead over Sun.

Posted by: David Mohring   Posted on: 11/10/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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