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

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Dick Cravens wrote:

> 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

One thing to remember is that the Sun Community Source License isn't
anything like the BSD or GPL in many respects, so it's not clear to me
exactly how closely Solaris, BSD, and Linux will compete.  SGI, remember,
is on the Linux bandwagon; Sun might just have felt the need to make some
gesture to "keep even".

But it's still very interesting, and the kind of thing you *never* would
have seen before *BSD and Linux systems became the commercial force they
are now.

jking