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Solaris No Longer Free As In Beer

Posted by timothy on from the leisure-suit-larry-ellison dept.

rubycodez writes "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."

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  1. I feel sorry by SigNuZX728 · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the person that this affects.

  2. Re:Solaris? by Stormwatch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Solaris? What's that?

    It's a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanislaw Lem, famously adapted to film in 1972 by Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky. Its main theme is the impossibility of communication between humans and a completely non-humanoid alien life form.

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    Circumcision is child abuse.