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Sun Closes Solaris Source Sales June 30
Vardamir writes: "
It appears that Sun is no longer interested
in distributing the source code to their Solaris Operating System, even for
a charge of $75.00. 'Thanks for your interest and welcome to the
Solaris[tm] 8 Foundation Source Program. Please note that the Solaris
8 Foundation Source Program will be canceled effective June 30, 2001. In
addition, both the secure chat and code-exchange sites will also be terminated
on this date.' Get it while you still can, bzip it, and upload to a gnutella
server!" Hasn't exactly been that long a ride since this idea was first floated, but it never seemed to be the roaring success that Sun perhaps thought it would.
It's not slashdot's opinion, it's the submitter's.
Szo
Red Leader Standing By!
... to encourage people to get the source and put it Gnutella ?
C'mon people, this is not open source, they were selling the source and are now cancelling the effort (who knows why). But by making little comments like that, you're making us look like a community of software pirates not open source advocates !
- sigs are for wimps.
I was watching the JavaOne keynote's last week and something struck me as interesting. While JavaOne is a conference sponsered by Sun, the majority of the products that had on-stage demos were running under the Linux OS. Not all of them, but a lot of them were.
I thought it was interesting how people kept coming up on stage and telling the Sun reps that this that or the other thing ran with a Linux backend. Once or twice they had the comment "oh....it runs on Linux?"
If I worked for Sun, I would have taken that as a wakeup call. Currently Sun is one of the companies that doesn't know quite what to make of little free OS we know and love.
I personally never thought it really made sense to release the Solaris code. Maybe they are starting to come up with a real open source strategy...at least we can hope.
-Pete
Soccer Goal Plans
...it's because they finally figured out the "Network is NOT the computer".