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You are forgetting something

You are forgetting something

Posted Jan 18, 2007 1:33 UTC (Thu) by notamisfit (subscriber, #40886)
In reply to: You are forgetting something by nim-nim
Parent article: Sun to release OpenSolaris under GPL version 3 (Linux-Watch)

I think the actual amount of code is trivial; the issue seems to be that
the kernel devs (or at least some of them, Linus being the most vocal) do
not want to force restrictions on hardware developers beyond reciprocity.

While I think GPLv3 has its merits, their code, their rules.


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You are forgetting something

Posted Jan 18, 2007 13:18 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

SUN is voting with its code right now

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