[advocacy-discuss] IBM in talks to buy SUN! - Is this true!?

[John Plocher]

2009/3/23 ольга крыжановская <olga.kryzhanovska at gmail.com>:
> A large part of Opensolaris still relies on closed source which is
> controlled by Sun. If IBM takes over then can let Opensolairs "die" by
> locking the closed parts away.

Just like BSD died when AT&T took away the closed parts in 4.4net? :-)

If the uptake/interest is there, someone will replace/reinvent those
closed parts (cf the emancipation project) and life will go on.  Until
then, the closed parts are available today in binary redistributable
form, so OpenSolaris can't be crippled by locking them away - they
have already escaped.

  -John