Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is 'GNU/Solaris' emerging from Microsoft-Novell deal?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "I would not be surprised," Phipps told us, "if the final GPL v3.0
> was
> | not an effective tool for some of the communities that Sun sustains,
> | or will, initiate, in the future."
> |
> | Solaris wasn't mentioned, but the prospect of a Solaris released
> | under a dual license, of which one is GPL v 3.0, therefore looks
> | much more likely today. And certainly enough of a prospect to
> | start talking about the ramifications.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/30/sun_gnu_solaris/
>
> Some weeks ago:
>
> Green: Sun may release Solaris under GPL next
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Fast forward 6 months to today. Looking more comfortable with each
> | other than ever, Schwartz and Green took the floor once again
> | to fulfill that promise. As has been widely reported, Sun announced
> | they will begin immediately to open source Java SE, ME, and EE under
> | the GNU Public License (GPL) version 2.
> `----
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=201
>
At least tens of thousands of Solaris admins and engineers have been
rolling GNU/Solaris machines from scratch for years.
In fact, in another life, I wrote a neat little bundle of shellscripts
knit into a utility called the "GNU-ifier" that when run on a Solaris
machine, went and got a basic set of GNU utilities and handy binaries
and installed them while you went off and had a sandwich. To anyone
whos ever had to use sunfreeware.com, this is nothing new at all.
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