innotek (makers of VirtualBox) to be bought by Sun

[Cyrus Jones]

Yes, I have heard of Nexenta. Although I though appreciate that Sun is
playing nice with the GPL, my trust does not go very far with Sun
(it's much better than Microsoft, however). In my opinion, Sun's
problem is that they use the benefit of the open source community and
then turn around if something (shortsightedly) looks better for them.
While this may look like a good strategy, Sun loses the trust of the
open source community.

Now, if OpenSolaris is released under GPLv3, Linux Torvalds may
recommend Linux contributors to use the GPLv3 license (or at least
GPLv2 or later).

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sun's Solaris/OpenSolaris is pretty much direct competition for Linux
>  (consider Nexenta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexenta_OS) which is
>  Ubuntu Solaris rather than Ubuntu Linux :), but they're keeping it
>  friendly, playing nice with the GPL, etc.  (Unlike Microsoft, they
>  actually are competing based on merit O:)
>
>  CK
>
>
>
>  On Feb 12, 2008 5:08 PM, Cyrus Jones <daradib at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Sun sure is purchasing Linux related / open-source companies. First
>  > MySQL, now Innotek. Hmm...
>  >
>  > I sure hope Sun improves the software it purchases. It would be really
>  > nice indeed if the expand the free (as in freedom) VirtualBox.
>  >
>  >
>  > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-02/sunflash.20080212.1.xml
>  > >
>  > >  "is expected to be completed during the third quarter of Sun's 2008
>  > >  fiscal year. The terms of the deal were not disclosed"
>  > >
>  > >  Hopefully, as a result of Sun's backing, they'll expand the GPL-side
>  > >  of VirtualBox to feature parity with the proprietary version.
>  > >
>  > >  CK
>  > >
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