I guess you haven't seen the packed seminars that Sun has been giving in China. Sun has a big presence there, and they're using it to push Open Solaris. Linux is more popular of course, but Open Solaris is growing.
Not really, it's only beta code
Not anymore. What is available right now as Open Solaris is a fully functional kernel, some libraries, drivers and tools. It is bootable and functional as-is. But as I said, there is already a fully-functional, installable distribution available that uses some of the same tools and programs that surround the Linux kernel to fill in any gaps.
IOW, if you prefer Open Solaris, you can essentially swap its kernel for the Linux kernel in a Linux distro.
Face it, China can run critical stuff on Open Solaris right now. You are a hypocrite for not deriding it for being free.
Stallman's new GPL license is being specifically crafted to prevent Tivo from using GPL code in their systems
... in the manner that they are currently doing it. This is one of the major problems Torvalds and others (including me) have with the GPL3 draft.
And as you've already admitted ~75% of all open source uses GPL.
Has nothing to do with the subject, but remember that the vast majority of those aren't even out of beta yet. I don't know how many times I've gone to SourceForge looking for software, seen a GPL entry I thought looked cool, only to find it was in planning or alpha.
Again, Open Solaris is a development project, not a product supported by Sun. China is standardizing on Linux, as they get a full production level operating system that is completely open and free, unlike Open Solaris. There are quite a few differences, as any Linux zealot will be happy to tell you, as if you didn't already know.