> Linux is the OS of GNU project, why can not SunOS be > one of the OS of GNU project?
Well, Hurd is actually "the" OS of the GNU project, but in practice Hurd never caught on or developed fast enough (and I've heard it has fundamental performance issues), so in practice, Linux is too, and the wording is perhaps better stated as "an OS" rather than "the OS". And depending on the talk of dual CDDL/GPLv3-ing Solaris (and the possibility for that matter that GPLv3 may look a little more like CDDL in many ways than GPLv2 does), the notion of OpenSolaris having equivalent status in that regard to Linux is IMO interesting or at least amusing. In practice, there's Nexenta (OpenSolaris-based kernel/Debian based userland); there are also similar things with NetBSD and FreeBSD kernels. So for a distro, even the kernel license isn't necessarily a barrier. On the ideological side, I'm a bit more comfortable with ER than RMS... This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
