What is happening to Oracle solaris ?

[Morten Gulbrandsen]

I read this on the first of April:

"Oracle, having acquired Sun Microsystems, including its Unix, will no
longer give away free Solaris licenses. Oracle also states that some
features of its Oracle Solaris will not appear in OpenSolaris, which
means OpenSolaris may start to die."


http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/03/31/0141208/Solaris-No-Longer-Free-As-In-Beer?from=rss



Any comments?

I feel this is bad for Solaris and UNIX in general. My understanding of
the topic is that Opensolaris will continue to exist, but it may differ
from Oracle Solaris in future.


Sincerely yours,

藻留天 具留部覧度船
Morten Gulbrandsen
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Java programmer, C++ programmer

[Chris Ridd]

Post by Morten Gulbrandsen
Oracle also states that some
features of its Oracle Solaris will not appear in OpenSolaris, which

Sun did the same thing - for example the Fishworks software in the 7xxx
boxes is not open source. This is not news!

Post by Morten Gulbrandsen
means OpenSolaris may start to die."

That does not follow.

Post by Morten Gulbrandsen
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/03/31/0141208/Solaris-No-Longer-Free-As-In-Beer?from=rss

Ah,
don't believe everything you read on Slashdot.

Post by Morten Gulbrandsen
I feel this is bad for Solaris and UNIX in general. My understanding of
the topic is that Opensolaris will continue to exist, but it may differ
from Oracle Solaris in future.

Opensolaris is already different from Solaris.