There is a project which "forks" open Solaris to help replace some of
the close source parts of Open Solaris, similar to what was done with
Open JDK.

Perhaps this is the way forward for some of these concerns.  For more
information see http://www.illumos.org/

Eric Bresie

On Aug 11, 6:24 pm, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> A little off topic perhaps but definitely in the "Oracle family".
>
> I've just been reading this, and in particular am interested in what
> people think about where this leaves OpenSolaris.
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-outlines-Solaris-11-say...
>
> My take on this (and I probably don't know what I'm talking about :))
> is that basically any further developments to Solaris from Oracle will
> become closed source?
>
> The question for me is is this a trend we will see for other open
> source projects inherited from Sun?  Is that too much of a long bow to
> draw?
>
> Andrew.

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