Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > Solaris
> > has worked on Intel hardware for quite some time, and Sun made it open
> > source also some time ago.

> Any idea what the motivation behind this is?

  I don't know, but I guess decreased sales in the last decade.

> It seems to be quite 
> fashionable for people to suddenly release the sources for large 
> commercial applications these days, and I'm never really sure what it is 
> they're hoping to gain...

  Improving public image, hopefully also popularity. There are ways to
make money with open source software too.

> Anyway, I would think that you wouldn't need a server to physically have 
> graphics hardware to access it remotely and get a graphical display of 
> some kind...

  Why install useless windowing software in a server that doesn't need it?

> Yeah - but I doubt my blog attracts any of those.

> [OTOH, I do sometimes mention Haskell...]

  Well, there you go. Haskell *is* a pet of many unix gurus too.

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                                                          - Warp

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