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Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN: msg#00135

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Subject: Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN

mikecoxlinux@xxxxxxxxx (Mike Cox) writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|Then why the hell should a linux advocate even care if SUN is going to
|Open Source Solaris?

Perhaps they shouldn't.

|If a person who is not a SUN engineer/employee
|cannot make changes to the CVS or take code and put it in another OS
|(aka BSD license), then it has no value.

Maybe no value to you, but it still has lots of value to lots of other
people, even with those restrictions.

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