On 17/09/2007, Dermot McCluskey <Dermot.McCluskey at sun.com> wrote: > Joseph Kowalski wrote: > > > > Higher level question: "Should OpenSolaris be GPL free?". Would "GPL free" > > be a feature (as in competitive advantage) or a bug (not competitive > > advantage). > > I ask this in the "OpenSolaris Community" forum and not Sun. Perhaps its > > better to not be a clone of Linus in this regard. > > I'm guessing it would be a distinct competitive disadvantage. > What desktop would a GPL-free OpenSolaris use?
Why the amiga research operating system desktop of course! http://aros.sourceforge.net/ (joking folks, no flames please!) or: MIT license: http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ BSD license: http://www.suckless.org/wiki/wmii MIT license: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwm But seriously, I think trying to be GPL free is nearing insanity at this point. You might be able to somehow be able to accommodate that in a server environment, but in a desktop environment I think it's pretty much impossible from any practical standpoint. I think the better thing to ask is "What is the best software solution to each challenge that is compatible with our existing software and licensing?"... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
