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Farewell To OpenSolaris. Oracle Just Killed It Off.
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Originally posted by allquixotic View PostI just don't get how on the one hand, btrfs is as open as any other Free Desktop technology; whereas Solaris has to be hoarded like the king's crown jewels. And these both coming from the same company. I guess in such a large organization you get managers with different opinions doing different things.
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Originally posted by sirdilznik View Postclosed source Solaris
Solaris source code will still be released!
All their axing is the community development model. Quote:
?We will continue to use the CDDL license statement in nearly all
Solaris source code files. We will not remove the CDDL from any files
in Solaris to which it already applies, and new source code files that
are created will follow the current policy regarding applying the CDDL
(simply, that usr/src files will have the CDDL, and the very small
minority of files in usr/closed might not have it). Use of other open
licenses in non-ON consolidations (e.g. GPL in the Desktop area) will
also continue. As before, requests to change the license associated
with source code are case-by-case decisions.?
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Originally posted by allquixotic View PostI just don't get how on the one hand, btrfs is as open as any other Free Desktop technology; whereas Solaris has to be hoarded like the king's crown jewels. And these both coming from the same company. I guess in such a large organization you get managers with different opinions doing different things.
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Originally posted by kraftman View PostIt's not a mistake. It can be said Open Source equates to Linux and GPL.
Originally posted by kraftman View PostAlso, without GNU and Linux BSD itself would mean nothing (except some market which Linux has stolen from it). Without Linux, you say BSD on desktops I say Windows and OS X, you say BSD on HPC, enterprise I say closed source Solaris and other Unixes. It's the Linux and GPL which are the essence of Open Source. Btw. the license is one of the most important things, so "just" is not a proper word.
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Originally posted by thefirstm View PostScrew you, Oracle! Screw you! First suing Google for Android java, and now this? I might just have to switch my web server over to pg-sql...
Maybe this should also invoke some thought about mono? I'm not up to speed with info on that so I don't know how much similarities there are.
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Originally posted by sirdilznik View PostNo surprise here. The moment Oracle bought Sun, and I'm still not sure why...
I mean, MySQL was making tens of millions a year, yet Sun, a company with less than stellar finances at the time, all of a sudden decides to pay $1B+ for MySQL?
Plus, look at what came out of the acquisition till now: Glassfish relegated to "academic" status, just when it actually caught up with the other big contender: JBoss; Netbeans starts loosing important features, like UML modelling - probably going the way of the dodo asap; no more free support for Solaris; and now this and that Android lawsuit. There's just too much overlapping between Sun's and Oracle's portfolio and up until now, none of the better products has the upper hand
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Originally posted by korpenkraxar View PostHah seems like Sun technology really is poisonous. Most likely, Oracle will slowly succumb and die from it in five years as well. I wish Microsoft buys Oracle.
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