> Hi Folks, > > A little off topic perhaps but definitely in the "Oracle family". > > I've just been reading this, and in particular am interested in what > people think about where this leaves OpenSolaris. > > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-outlines-Solaris-11-says-little-of-OpenSolaris-1053998.html > > My take on this (and I probably don't know what I'm talking about :)) > is that basically any further developments to Solaris from Oracle will > become closed source? > > The question for me is is this a trend we will see for other open > source projects inherited from Sun? Is that too much of a long bow to > draw? > > Andrew.
It could also mean that they are working on improvements internally around the base that they release under a commercial license only to be ahead of the open source version and later do a dump release of changes or just contribute back what they have to in order to prevent back porting. OpenSolaris could still remain to be the core... Purely speculating Manfred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
