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[News] Sun Needs the GPL, Will Dive Even Deeper into Open Source Licenses

Sun Mulls Deeper Open-Source Dive

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| It has been five years since Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott
| McNealy donned a penguin suit at a San Francisco conferenceto
| demonstrate Sun's détente with Linux. Rather than dis the
| open-source operating system as an inferior competitor, Sun
| would sell it, albeit in select corners of the market.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Now, amid falling sales of its bread-and-butter servers and mounting
| pressure on Schwartz to cut more jobs and boost a stock price that's
| dropped more than 22%, to $5.26, since early February, Sun is
| considering its most radical open-source move yet: releasing Solaris
| under the love-it-or-hate-it GPL.
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070430_095211.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech
http://tinyurl.com/yudo53

Review of Sun Solaris 10

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| I believe this is an operating system which holds a lot of promise
| as a Desktop OS. And if the people steering Sun Microsystems take
| the right decisions (hint: GPL ???), it just might take the fancy
| of a large section of IT savvy public, enough to motivate many of
| them to start developing Free software for Solaris.
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http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/04/review-of-sun-solaris-10.html


Related:

Dear Mr. Gates: save Vista, open-source it

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| Although Microsoft may claim otherwise, Vista, from both from a technical
| and business point of view, is proving to be a failure. Why not turn it
| over to people who have shown time after time that they can deliver
| the goods?
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2930812631.html

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