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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. Re:How different does it have to be? by DeadPixels · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Oh, sorry, I didn't realize "Oracle Solaris" and "OpenSolaris" were referring to two separate products. Mod parent informative. :)

  2. Re:That's fine by dfghjk · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So you are saying that code owners should be forced to release all future code as open source because they have released some as open source in the past? That may be Stallman's wet dream but the GPL does not and cannot do that. Property remains property; GPL fanatics love to preach that when it suits them. It cuts both ways.

    It would seem that the goodwill of a for-profit company remains goodwill even if their future contributions aren't so good. There is no "bait and switch".