OpenSolaris is Dead

Oracle is killing spree, after losing the ground over the top innovators of Sun, Oracle will do what is inevitable - Kill the Sun’s Open source. And no doubt, their baseless allegations against Google on Java usage in android also intend to do the same.

Few months back they made Solaris 10 a shareware which was limited from Free to 90days trial. We knew this was coming — a leaked Internal mail from a Oracle’s memo that was sent out to Oracle Solaris Engineers, describes Oracle’s true intentions towards the OpenSolaris project and the future of Oracle Solaris.

Its a shame that 4 years of external + internal effort on a quality product like  OpenSolaris will now ship as an Oracle product that original innovators can no longer obtain on an unrestricted to.
Isn’t this against Open source ?

Here are the shameless excerpts from the email:

“We will not release any other binary distributions, such as nightly or bi-weekly builds of Solaris
binaries, or an OpenSolaris 2010.05 or later distribution. We will determine a simple, cost-effective means of getting enterprise users of prior OpenSolaris binary releases to migrate to S11 Express.”

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