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

["Alex H." <linuxx64 bashsh gmail com>]

Those projects look cool, hopefully they take off and everybody using
Osol can switch.

Alex

On 11/13/10, Christian Hofstader <cdh gnu org> wrote:
> 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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