On January 21, 2005, the Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz said in a exclusive interview with Vnunet.com, the company will open its Solaris operating system source code at the end of this month.
It is reported that Sun has previously expressed the source code to open its Solaris operating system, but this action has been dragged to the present because there is no appropriate authorization agreement.
This time, Sun said that it is desirable to recover some of the market share taken by Linux by opening Solaris source code.
At present, the Open Source Promotion (OSI) has approved Sun's "Public Development and Distribution Authorization (CDDL)" protocol on Tuesday. This means that CDDL has become a formal open source authorization standard.
In this regard, Sun CEO Schwartz said: "OSI authorization gives us the right to trade between BSD license agreement and GPL license agreement."
Schwartz said that for corporate users, they care about the development direction of the operating system. However, for some authorizations, such as GPL, it requires companies to provide too much information. Therefore, Schwartz said: "There is no protocol to meet the needs of all users, but we will meet more users' needs."
The Vice President of the Burton Group Application Platform Strategic Department said: "So far, this is the most significant results I have seen by Sun in the open Solaris source code."
