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GPL Solaris benefits SunGPL Solaris benefits SunPosted Nov 18, 2004 15:06 UTC (Thu) by cajal (subscriber, #4167)In reply to: GPL Solaris benefits Sun by erwbgy Parent article: Solaris 10
"If Sun release Solaris under the GPL then many of the interesting features in Linux will find their
What features would those be? Solaris already does anything Linux can do. The only real benefit
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GPL Solaris benefits Sun Posted Nov 18, 2004 18:29 UTC (Thu) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736) [Link] What features would those be? Solaris already does anything Linux can do. The only real benefit would be porting drivers for x86 hardware from Linux to Solaris, but Sun could already port drives from *BSD if they wanted. No small benefit, that. Linux is far and away better at x86 hardware support than anything but Windows.
GPL Solaris benefits Sun Posted Nov 19, 2004 19:22 UTC (Fri) by erwbgy (subscriber, #4104) [Link] Indeed. Sun's Java Desktop runs on Linux for a reason.
GPL Solaris benefits Sun Posted Nov 19, 2004 0:53 UTC (Fri) by foo (guest, #1117) [Link] Linux can run on dozens of platforms, while Solarisonly runs on two or three. This matters a lot here in embedded-land.
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