Sun Joins the Free Software Foundation 116
RLiegh writes "Ars Technica reports that Sun has joined the FSF Corporate Patron program. The article explains that the FSF corporate program allows companies to provide financial assistance to the FSF in return for license consulting services. The article goes on to observe that this move is doubtlessly motivated by Sun's interest in GPL3's direction. Now that Sun has opened up Java and become an FSF corporate sponsor...could the move to dual license OpenSolaris under the GPL3 be far behind?"
Re:Sun opened up Java? (Score:5, Informative)
Because java doesn't insert itself magically into the apt repository the second Sun relicenses it. This takes work.
Re:Sun opened up Java? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Sun opened up Java? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Sun opened up Java? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What this means (Score:1, Informative)
ugh (Score:2, Informative)
In the end, the differences between the current crop of UNIX-like kernels won't matter much. All of them have roughly the same functionality, most of them are fairly mature and stable, and all of them give you performance close to machine. And under the hood, they're all ugly and messy.
So, personally, I'm sticking with Linux. Solaris might be slightly "better", but not in a way that matters, and far more people are contributing to Linux (in particular, drivers).
Re:Sun opened up Java? (Score:5, Informative)
Java 7 will be released under GPL3, so expect to see that in main.
Re:Sun opened up Java? (Score:5, Informative)
Debian derivative. Uses Solaris as it's kernel.
Re:Is it really doubtless? (Score:5, Informative)
What the HELL are you talking about?? After Java was open sourced Stallman said: "I think that Sun with this contribution has contributed more than any other company to the free software community in the form of software. And it shows leadership -- it's an example I hope others will follow." [linux.com]. What more do you want?