No sir. They do not accept Solaris because firstly they believe freedom is priceless and that a for-profit company in drivers seat driving things the deem fit, there cannot be freedom and no one likes to work for free for somebody else's cause.
marketing, just marketing, changing the license won't solve the problem for the simple fact that Solaris is sun's product and most of the changes to the ON will still come from sun. In any case, evangelizm can solve the issue, CDDL is free by any standard, even the FSF thinks so, their only problem with it is that it is just not GPL compatible. That might change with GPLv3, there is some focus in license compatibility these days. Secondly most use x86 and Solaris won't work there and if they are to fix it they would have to go thru some good amount of red tapism, instead of just fixing it and integrating it in the main tree.
"find an application that solves the problem in hand, then pick the os that runs it the best and finally pick the right hardware for the os" that should be the number one rule for any sysadmin picking hardware. Hobbyists might have some problems with hardware and solaris, I agree there, but it is not nearly as bad as you paint it. i had 0 problems getting solaris to work in my desktop and except for the wireless card everything in the laptop i'm using works, this is a Dell 640m. Red tape is a necesary evil to get high quality software and you'll find that most here agree. In fact it is that high quality that drives people to solaris, without that it would just be another linux, a product that just works fine most of the time
Fix both of the above and do away with your protectionist and wrong ways and you will see a surge in usage and participation.
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