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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. dup by lems1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    another dup. but this is /. after all...

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  2. Fuck the market by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    fuck capitalism.
    completely unrelated to this, but just wanted to say it.