On 9/17/07, 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?
I have to second that. It would be an incredibly bad idea to strip out all GPL code. We would have to reinvent many wheels and we just don't have the bandwidth. -Brian > > - Dermot > > _______________________________________________ > sfwnv-discuss mailing list > sfwnv-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sfwnv-discuss > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
