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GPL3 will become dominant in all GNU/Linux distrosGPL3 will become dominant in all GNU/Linux distrosPosted Jan 17, 2007 16:07 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: GPL3 will become dominant in all GNU/Linux distros by dwalters Parent article: Sun to release OpenSolaris under GPL version 3 (Linux-Watch)
Indeed. Even at its most extreme, a GPLed OpenSolaris kernel replacement would hardly be akin to the Unix->Windows or Windows->Linux takeovers: a few pieces of low-level-tangled userspace would need to be rewritten, probably the most nifty parts of Linux (e.g. udev) would gain reimplementations in OpenSolaris, and... hardly anything else would need to change at all. Users, developers, almost everyone would see things almost unchanged.
The free software ecology has already coped with changes almost on this scale with nary a ripple. After all, it's not the kernel software that matters, ultimately: it's the sum of all the software, and the free software developers, and they're not going to vanish. There's already a diversity of free kernels: one growing dominant over the others is just a change in degree, not in kind.
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