[rescue] GPL Solaris?!?

Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 patrick at zill.net
Sat May 1 15:45:29 CDT 2004


On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 01:30:04PM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/30/HNsolarisgpl_1.html
> 
> New president and COO comments they may GPL it.
> 
> That would be quite a yay moment if it would happen.
> 
> Think about it:  We could build a proper Radeon 7000 driver for the
> Solaris X server.

Or even backport support so that an older system could run the latest
Solaris.  Or add OpenBSD's "pf" packet filter to it.

--Patrick



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