Re: [UUG/MLUG] Solaris Source to be released.

["Dick Cravens" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

My understanding from the reports I'm seeing is that commercial use of the code
will still require payment to Sun. Linux still has an economic edge in that
sense.

See http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2345514,00.html

I haven't seen any mention of the availability of the Intel ports of Solaris
under this announcement... it's too easy to assume they come along too.

Keith Kleiner wrote:

> I think it is hard to tell the implications at this point.  Solaris
> certainly has an abundance of excellent code!  However, Solaris was
> not built from the ground up for the intel x86 architecture and its
> peripherals like linux was.  Hence, from my perspective, it seems like
> Solaris would need some major modification and updates before it would be
> ready to take PC's by storm and compete with Linux, FreeBSD, and others.
> Whatever happens, it seems clear to me that the end user will benefit
> because now there will be that much more excellent code on the table to
> choose from.
>
> -keith
>
> On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Bradshaw, Neil P. (UMC-Student) wrote:
>
> > This is kind of heavy. Solaris is a big company, and for them to be
> > releasing their source code is even bigger. I was reading an artice linked
> > from Slashdot that the implications of this could severly hurt the rising
> > popularity of Linux.
> >
> > Here's the text I am refering to:
> >
> > http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MichaelWhitmore/MichaelWhitmore2.html
> >
> > Anybody have any thoughts on this?
> >
> > -- Neil Bradshaw
> >