Re: [orca-list] What happened to solaris?



This is exactly why it is important to promote Libre licenses rather than just "open source." Licenses like 
GPL would not have allowed Oracle to shut down Open Solaris completely, the community could have forked it 
and, like Libre Office (a new project that forked OpenOffice when Oracle started making noises) it could 
still be alive today.

Oracle is being really aggressive regarding free software whose copyrights it acquired when they bought Sun. 
Because most was GPL, they couldn't do too much to kill projects but they did try to change licenses and do 
other nasty things regarding our freedoms.

The only accessibility engineers that Oracle has retained are those on the OpenOffice/Oracle Office team. It 
has yet to be learned whether their new work will go into the open version or not. It is highly unlikely that 
any of it will go into the new Libre Office as Oracle is actively opposing this project.

cdh
On Nov 12, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:

Open Solaris is dead! Yes, Oracle killed another one.  As of August 31st 2010, The committee that supported 
OpenSolaris was officially disbanded after Oracle made it know that it was pulling the plug and had no 
further interest in supporting it.

Had OpenSolaris been licensed differently, it could have been forked and kept alive by the community.  
That's why licensing detail is so important.  Even though most of Solaris was supposedly open source, it 
could not be redistributed by anyone else so it is now dead.  Thanks, Oracle.

On 11/12/2010 09:33 PM, Justin Pospical wrote:
Why did OpenSolaris 2010.01 never come out? I have been checking
genunix.org for the last ten months and nothing has changed.
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