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 > > _______________________________________________ > > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
