Goodbye to OpenSolaris

August 23, 2010 by Nico
Filed under: Solaris
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OpenSolaris no more

OpenSolaris no more

The rumor was confirmed. When Oracle bought Sun, some feared for the continuance of OpenSolaris. A few months ago a change in the license revived these fears, and now finally been confirmed in an internal memo from Oracle.

The good side of the news is that this will not mean not to free software development by Oracle, or the end of a free version of Solaris. Say, the politics of open source, licensed under the CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License, incompatible with the GPL), will continue as before, and continue to contribute to other free software projects like GNOME, Perl or Apache.

As for the free version, Oracle Solaris 11 Express intended to replace the OpenSolaris systems with a free license and optional support. The idea is that eventually these systems will migrate to Solaris 11, which itself will pay.

This decision Oracle also has its bad side. Now, all the open source Solaris will only be accessible through an internal network, which have access only approved customers. This means that, even despite being mostly free, will only see certain people Solaris code. Truly a loss, because with OpenSolaris anyone could see and explore all that much code.

The reasons for this decision are focusing all their resources on Solaris 11, and keep the updates and new features appear in the source code before the start of the final version. In this way, they avoid competition has an advantage, or can throw FUDS: [...] not permit to derive Competitors Business Advantage (or FUD) from our innovations Before we do.

In summary, we have a free operating system less, and a very valuable project discontinued for economic reasons. A true loss for all users, companies or individuals, OpenSolaris, and the free software community.

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A Farewell to comment on OpenSolaris

  1. Macbeth on Sun, 19th Sep 2010 17:50

    2. and let's say welcome to OpenIndiana while Sun and VMWare Oracle is destroyed by Novell as both empresitas have a rival named Red Hat ¿OpenSuSE be fried? Not to copy-paste and yes to freedom of expression spite of them.

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