[rescue] Solaris soon open source

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Patrick Finnegan said ...
> On Wednesday 02 June 2004 13:44, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:33:38PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 02 June 2004 13:24, Thomas Gallaway wrote:
> > > > Just fell over this news headline:
> > > > http://www.cooltechzone.com/reviews/itcomputing/sun_002.php
> > > >
> > > > "Sun Microsystems, one of the biggest names in the server world,
> > > > reported that the company will now make Solaris an open source
> > > > project. Sun is not sure as to when the move of making Solaris
> > > > open source will take place at this point."
> > >
> > > This seems unlikely, especially after the news story yesterday (or
> > > maybe a few days ago) where Sun said that *hardware* was going to
> > > be free in the future.
> >
> > Sun said *HARDWARE* was going to be free...?!?
>
> Aparently "free with qualified software purchase."
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/01/1627236

Ummm, if the software is Open Source, I suppose they could still sell it;
Red Hat does that.  Might be tough to have enough margin in it to cover
hardware, though.

Of course, the hardware companies used to give away the OS with the
hardware.

But, I have to admit I'm getting confused about what Sun is doing.  So far,
they seem to have said...

	Switching to Linux
	Open-Sourcing Solaris
	Free hardware when you buy software

What I don't see in any of that is "making money."  I'd like for Sun to make
money (SGI, too) so they will stay around.

-Shel