Sun Confirms Plans to Open Source Solaris

Sun Microsystem's Jonathan Schwartz has promised the the company will open source Solaris, its long time flagship operating system. "'We will open source Solaris.'... On the subject of a probable licensing model for the open-source Solaris, John Loiacono, executive vice president of Sun's Software Group, said: 'We have to consider what licensing model we use and what levels of free usage we want. Then we also need to consider if we want to (segment the licensing model to address) commercial, private and academic use.'" There is still no word on when this will happen.

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