It'll be interesting to see what, if anything, becomes of Illumos. It sounds like OpenSolaris is as good as done for:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2010-August/007997.html On Aug 13, 3:03 am, ebresie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 seehttp://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.
