> If the GPLv3 decision were to be made exclusively by > Sun, I would not be > having this conversation with you now. We would just > make it and be > done. But that's not what I'm doing. I'm talking > with you first.
To be quite frank, I do not believe that any true fan of Solaris (outside of Sun) will ever be happy about GPLing their most favorite Operating Environment in the world. Take me for example. I loved SunOS dearly in the days when it was hardcore proprietary. It did not matter to me whether it was GPL or not; I would have still used it and keep using it and deploying no matter how open source other operating systems were. I still use and make no deployments of HP-UX, even though that thing will probably never be outsourced, but what do I care when I can run most of the popular software just like I can on Solaris or Linux? I don't. So what difference did it make whether HP-UX is GPLed at the end of the day? None. DNS is running on it, and running great and fast, and the OS is robust and comfortable -- and it gets the jobs done, and done well! I read the GPL V3 draft and I find it one of the most fascist, ideology-laden licenses that I've ever read; it might be on the opposite side of the spectrum when compared with the Microsoft EULA, but both are just as bad -- because they are extremes. And no extreme can ever be any good. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
