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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
