Both sides come out swinging in the open source battle (ZDNet)

Both sides come out swinging in the open source battle (ZDNet)

> Have you seen a source code license for Sun Solaris or Oracle’s
> namesake database? Of course you haven’t, because you can’t get it.

I haven't seen source code for the Oracle DB, but I have seen Solaris source code at least once. (IIRC, it was their 2.4 release.) It's not hard to get ahold of: you just need to spend about a quarter million dollars, & they'll deliver it to you. And as far as I know, you can make changes to it for your own use -- at least that's the impression I had at the time -- but they insist on being the exchange point for any changes you would like to share.

Unless Sun has changed things in the last five years (I hear they've lost a few sales lately, & they may be rethinking just how much access they've offering to their software), they've always been willing to sell their source code to a customer.

Such an obvious error: maybe this writer should do his homework first.

Geoff