[Fsf-friends] Sun considers GPL license for Solaris

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Titty Jacob said on Mon, May 03, 2004 at 11:43:37AM +0530,:

 > http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/30/HNsolarisgpl_1.html

Groklaw says:- take that with a pinch of salt. 

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040501065720686

<quote> (quoting Jonnathan Schwartz at
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/30/HNsolarisgpl_1.html

	"Still, Sun has its  apprehensions. 'What worries us about the
	GPL  is  its capacity  to  encourage  forking, because  what's
	happened in Linux is that Red Hat has forked. Not in the sense
	that the  kernel is different  ... It's forked because  if you
	write to  the Red  Hat distribution, you  can't go and  run on
	Debian.' . . . "
</quote>

Coming from the  COO of a large IT corporate, which  sells an OS based
on  BSD codebase,  this displays  a remarkable  level of  ignorence of
POSIX compliance. (forget the kernel, FHS and the GPL).
	
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