Sun's open source policy closes doors for Solaris (ZDNet)
[Posted June 26, 2002 by cook]
ZDNet features
an editorial by a Solaris developer that looks at how open-source packages may not easily port to non-Linux platforms.
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Since Linux and Solaris are not identical, this means that a growing number of software packages will not work "out of the box" with Solaris. Solaris is becoming a third-class citizen in the free software world."
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