Hi. On 27/01/2008, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27/01/2008, Jon Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think Sun is genuinely becoming a totally free software company, > > > more so than any other major free software company in fact, but its > > > just on a decade timescale. > > > > Too little too late though? They only release when they have lost, so > > they drop a lot of good stuff in our lap after we've switched to > > something better and free. I'd rather Sun just threw their weight behind > > a GNU+Linux disto now, or contributed a lot of code to the Kernel like > > IBM do. > > I read (on a sun.com blog iirc) a famous Sun person said that GPLing > Java "gave it 15 years more life."
I thought so too: http://jguk.org/2006/12/simon-phipps-suns-saving-grace.html > However, their Solaris stuff (dtrace, zfs, etc) is not pony, > demonstrated with Apple's use of it (albeit crippled) in Mac OS X and > www.joyent.com's switch to Solaris a few years ago. > > If they GPLv3 their stuff, as they are rumored to, perhaps a pure > GPLv3 GNU-based system will become possible: GNU+kSolaris+KDE4, > anyone? :-) hehe. Maybe Ubuntu would adopt it as their base, let's hope it's built on apt! Maybe CPUs might be faster enough to make Java viable then too :) Cheers, Jon _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
