OpenSolaris Governing Board Dissolves Itself

mysidia writes "Last month, it was mentioned that the OpenSolaris governing board issued an ultimatum to Oracle. It turns out that Oracle continued to ignore requests to appoint a liaison after the governing board's demands. This morning, the board unanimously passed a resolution to dissolve itself. Source code changes are no longer available, and it would appear that OpenSolaris and community involvement in the development of Solaris have been killed as rumored. We recently discussed a 'Spork' of OpenSolaris called Illumos. Perhaps now, this will have a chance at becoming a true fork."

Comments

Re:What momentum may that fork have?

[metamatic]

This is exactly why I never even bothered downloading OpenSolaris. If they had put it under GPL I'd have been all over it.

Re:What momentum may that fork have?

[BitZtream]

I'm trolling but ... how sad is it that you missed the experience with OpenSolaris, that no doubt would have been useful to you just from learning about a different way of doing things ... and the only reason was because the license wasn't GPL compatible.

Thats pretty sad.

You probably are better off for not trying OpenSolaris at this point, it sucks, but still, you completely ignore things because your license is so restrictive? CDDL doesn't prevent you from using their code, GPL prevents you from using CDDL code. I just can understand how you can be such a tool and not realize it, let me guess, you're a goth too, right?