>We would get the entire GNU userland, for one.  Samba, who says their 
>going v3, will be easier to integrate as well.  Kernel, not so much.

We can use that already. So what is the point in dual licensing.

We are already integrating GNU userland.  (in an optional directory)

>Makes it easier.  But the big boon would be in mindshare.  I'm not 
>convinced that a dual-license would dramatically increase the number of 
>OpenSolaris developers (relative small number), but I believe it would 
>increase the number of developers developing apps for OpenSolaris and 
>increase the user base (those people using an OpenSolaris distro), which 
>is a huge number.

How do you make something which is "no problem" easier?

Developing for Solaris requires them to download and install it;
that's not going to become easier.  Bittorrents would make that
easier.

Casper
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