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[John Lacey]

Chris Snyder wrote:

> Tim Gales wrote:
> 
>> "Sun Microsystems Inc. this week formally committed itself to 
>> releasing Solaris operating system code as open source, but no final 
>> decisions have been made on the specific details..."
>>
> Holy moly.
> Just read on /. that Java is to be open (someday!) as well.

also, you can download SuSE 9.1 for free now.. but dunno if it's 
the pro version or what...


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> "Sun Microsystems Inc. this week formally committed itself to=20
> releasing Solaris operating system code as open source, but=20
> no final decisions have been made on the specific details..."

"... no final decisions have been made on the specific details..."

Call me pessimistic, but I read that as "...we'll release 1% of our code
because we want the marketing buzz that surrounds Open Source to
surround us since we're loosing market share left and right..."

I hope that I'm wrong, since there's some good stuff deep within
Solaris' code base, but it's going to mean a major shift for Sun.  That
said, if they are legit and do release the entire tree, watch out Linux.

H