http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1593 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1593/comment-page-1#comment-2321 Reader's Write Fri, 04 Jun 2004 18:04:26 +0000 #comment-2321 I imagine the Sun people are looking at different models for their product line. Knowing how popular Solaris is for some things, I imagine they might get a few bites if they did really open their sources. I think they are in the same boat Microsoft is in, where the community has become a bit less than sanguine over their tight control of the code base, and some folk feel the need for a bit of freedom in how they write applications for Solaris. Using some variant of the GPL or one they have specifically designed for Solaris makes more sense than having just their own code-smiths working on it. There exists a lot of talent out there in the world, and not all of them work for MS or Sun. I imagine the Sun people are looking at different models for their product line. Knowing how popular Solaris is for some things, I imagine they might get a few bites if they did really open their sources. I think they are in the same boat Microsoft is in, where the community has become a bit less than sanguine over their tight control of the code base, and some folk feel the need for a bit of freedom in how they write applications for Solaris. Using some variant of the GPL or one they have specifically designed for Solaris makes more sense than having just their own code-smiths working on it. There exists a lot of talent out there in the world, and not all of them work for MS or Sun.

]]> http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1593/comment-page-1#comment-2305 Reader's Write Thu, 03 Jun 2004 22:41:03 +0000 #comment-2305 if Java's recent license is any indicator, then dont hold your breath, Sun is trying to play both sides and will fail miserably.... if Java’s recent license is any indicator, then dont hold your breath, Sun is trying to play both sides and will fail miserably….

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