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"We will open source Solaris" - Sun

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Sun president Jonathan Schwartz has confirmed that the company will at some point make its operating system's code available

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peragrin ·
Sun wanting to Open Source Solaris, that is a good idea but with their wishy-washy ways will end up with Solaris under a shared Source license which Sun keeps all changes for themselves.

If under Sun's License I can recompile the source code and build my own x86 distrobution then it will be Open Source. I can do that with RHEL. If Sun doesn't let you then it shows just how far off they are.

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