On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 07:36 -0800, Shawn Walker wrote:
> > >On Jan 31, 2007, at 20:52, Alan DuBoff wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Wednesday 31 January 2007 09:21 am, John
> > Sonnenschein wrote:
> > >>> If Stallman and the rest of the FSF start
> > promoting Solaris instead
> > >>> of that other kernel, and they would if we went
> > gpl3,  that would be
> > >>> more helpful to the project than any amount of
> > code or advertising in
> > >>> the world
> > >>
> > >> Yeah, right...I'll hold my breath for that...
> > >
> > >Actually I have had plenty of direct input from them
> > that suggests  
> > >this is exactly what would happen.
> > 
> > And this would matter how exactly?
> > 
> > It's well known that there's a spat between Linux
> > (Sorry, GNU/Linux)
> > and the FSF; Hurd is the FSF's current OS and it is
> > going nowhere;
> > they'd be switching from Hurd to Solaris.  Is that
> > the kind of company
> > we want to keep?
> > 
> > Casper
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> So will Stallman ask us to call it GNU/Solaris? It obviously doesn't apply to 
> Solaris since we have our own compiler, etc. and don't need GNU tools to 
> exist (as far as I know).

Solaris is a distribution of Sun Microsystem, only Sun can decide to go
with GNU userland.

On the other hand, we already have GNU/OpenSolaris NexentaOS:
http://www.gnusolaris.org

-- 
Erast

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