OpenSolaris

versitycobalt · #1 14th June 2005, 10:29 PM

Sun Microsystems officially released OpenSolaris today and with the other topic about Apple this past week making a big move, I thought this should be a good place to put this.

I have never really used Solaris too much. Only very limited CLI usage when I worked at Kansas State University. My question is, what do you think Sun opening up Solaris will do to/for Linux, for Sun itself, and what are your overall thoughts on it?

I'm still trying to form the thoguhts I have been mulling over into questions, so I thought I might start this to start somewhere myself.

OpenSolaris
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/

critter · #2 14th June 2005, 11:05 PM

I guess it will hold a market share. I don't know it the opensolaris runs on different architectures? The open source movement is good. I don't think it will change much for Linux. Linux is riding the first wave on open source in my opinion. Surfing it can be fun for the first time, but eventually this wave will settle itself. I don't think the following waves will hold up to the first. not saying that you can't ride them, but your first is special

Angelus23 · #3 16th June 2005, 04:03 PM

solaris sucks..
Already gave it a shot, and it stinks

**Finalzone** · #4 16th June 2005, 06:32 PM

The problem with OpenSolaris is the source code cannot be redistributable due to their licenses. When reading the CDDL (Common Development Distributed Licenses), one can notice users/developers cannot use codes on non-Solaris system without being sued by SUN themselves. Frankly, I don't understand why SUN management waste time to create that license. We will see what will happen in long term.

hlfmanhlfamzng · #5 22nd June 2005, 03:31 PM

Personally, I don't have a problem with the CDDL and I think it's a great move by sun.

For those of us who live and die by OSS the CDDL is rather hypocritical, but that's what it's supposed to be. Sun is trying to have it both ways. They want to have open source for it's business partners and others who want access to it, yet it doesn't want to give up it's code(that it's worked hard on for many years/decades) to competitors. Yes that means linux. It could also be BSD, darwin, whoever.

I personally find it to be a fair compromise. As a user, I get my OSS from (x company) I'm just not allowed to copy it to other products. Solaris is still sun's property, and they have the right to say that we can't copy code to a competing product. Open source means the source is viewable to all, and solaris is now OSS software.