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| On 2011-11-09 18:55:12, Paul B. Henson wrote:
| 
| I see Oracle has released Solaris 11. While I don't think it was ever
| actually promised, based on the leaked internal memo they were talking
| about releasing the source code once the product was released.

Their comment today was "no comment." I wouldn't expect to see the gate open
again.

| Think that will actually happen? It would sure be nice to be able to
| have a common zpool/zfs feature set between Solaris and Illumos based
| distributions.

I'm not holding my breath.

| Conversely, I've seen a lot of new features and fixes flying by on the
| Illumos dev mailing list; any evidence of Oracle pulling those in to
| their commercial Solaris?

Not without opening up tangential bits of their code. bmc could speak more to
the intent behind that. ;)

Basically, assume that we're all hanging out in different walled gardens.

Cut code, keep calm, carry on.

Cheers.
-- 
bdha
cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk.


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