Author:
Shawn Webb
After purchasing Sun, Oracle decided to abandon and alienate the opensource community by closing Solaris' source code. Bryan Cantrill talked about the issues surrounding Solaris, IllumOS, and Oracle this year at USENIX LISA 2011 (YouTube video of the talk). It seems that earlier this morning, a disgruntled Oracle employee leaked the source code behind Solaris 11. I'm glad the source has leaked. It serves Oracle right. They've proved that all they care about is greed. They don't innovate. I'm sure FreeBSD and IllumOS developers alike are researching the legality of incorporating the leaked code.
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Don't look at it
Submitted by Geoff Flarity (not verified) on
Anyone who thinks they ever might contribute to Illumos one day should steer clear of this. I wouldn't be suprised it was leaked in order to harm Illumos!
Oracle has promised that it
Submitted by Sami (not verified) on
Oracle has promised that it will release the source after each binary release anyway
Where?
Submitted by Mike Shapiro (not verified) on
Where exactly was that promised officially?
http://oss.oracle.com/systems
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
http://oss.oracle.com/systems-opensourcecode/
If Oracle doesn't innovate,
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
If Oracle doesn't innovate, then why do you want the code?
Because of improvements they
Submitted by lattera on
Because of improvements they've made to existing innovations. Granted, those improvements were well under way before Oracle's purchase of Sun.
Nice
Submitted by Lundman (not verified) on
This is the best xmas present Oracle could give us, we should write them a card and thank them!
:)
Solaris11 source
Submitted by Paul (not verified) on
Just to clarify--the open source portion of Solaris 11 is already available here:
http://oss.oracle.com/systems-opensourcecode
Solaris11 source
Submitted by Paul (not verified) on
Just to clarify--the open source portion of Solaris 11 is already available here:
http://oss.oracle.com/systems-opensourcecode
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