[a late response, my apologies]
In the immortal words of Russell Cattelan (cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx):
>
> It wasn't an issue of gain or not gain for SGI but a sense of what could
> be lost:
> XFS on solaris seems to be the biggest fear.
Is it?
Sun is already shipping a number of GPLed utlities with Solaris 8.
(Most notably and blessedly, /bin/bash.) There's even source code
included, buried deeply back on installation CD #8934... I rather
expect that if Sun thought they could gain some sort of competetive
advantage from shipping Solaris 9 with XFS, they'd simply go ahead and
do so with the existing GPL code.
However, I can't see it happening. Sun has a strong financial
disincentive against such a move: they currently make money off of
selling "server" editions of Solaris (which bundle Solstice Disksuite)
and rebadged copies of VXFS/VXVM for Solaris. Why ship for free what
they currently make in the neighborhood of $5k/seat for? :)
-n
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