Linked by David Adams on Fri 16th Jul 2010 19:44 UTC, submitted by sjvn
A Computerworld blog speculates that the open-source Unix distribution may live on, but Oracle won't be supporting it. At this point, "OpenSolaris' only real future is as a fork, which would not be easy to pull off. Still, with enough interest from developers it could be done. OpenSolaris is licensed under the 
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Mod this guy up.
Sure, the governing board might be in a huff, but that doesn't mean OpenSolaris is dead. The linked piece is just a damn opinion piece with conjecture and no facts.
As for forking? Why the hell not? It's been done before. There are plenty of OpenSolaris forks (Nexenta, SchillIX, Belenix etc.)
I think it's a bit premature to write OpenSolaris off yet.
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As for forking? Why the hell not? It's been done before. There are plenty of OpenSolaris forks (Nexenta, SchillIX, Belenix etc.)
Did they really fork it, or just aggregate it differently?
Opensolaris can only really be forked by former sun/oracle employees. One could guess that they could as well use their time on Linux, instead of a company that kicked them out / they themselves chose to leave at some stage?
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You guys are right. I should have marked this link as speculation. I've made an edit to the article to clarify.
I still don't see a reason for linking to an article, which actually is just some guys blog with random thoughts, wild fantasies and uninformed guesses with zero information value. Why should this blog post be worth reading?
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You are serious? Support contracts are not available from Oracle anymore and last official release of OpenSolaris (2009.6) is EOLed. Burden of proof is on you, you claim that support is available.
Tell ya what. Go on oracle.com and find a support contract for OpenSolaris, and I will buy one for you.
As for Larry Ellison saying... again: are you drugged? He's not saying anything. Oracle only supply FAQs and PDFs, and in those they say they will continue MySQL, OpenOffice, Virtual Box, but no word of OpenSolaris. Like it doesn't exist. Plan is to kill it quietly, that would be most effective. Rising the issue will bring bad press to Oracle, they hope people to give up by themselves. Besides, Larry is too busy mourning the loss of Golden State Warriors to care about something he already bought. It is not every day he get outbid.
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"SUN MicrosystemsThe open-source Unix distribution may live on, but Oracle won't be supporting it."
This sounds like a fact. When did Larry Ellison say this officially? Where is the link? Can somebody link to it?
I mean, OS News would never disguise a guess, as a fact because that wouldnt be appropriate. Some would even call it FUD, and OS News dont FUD. Where is the link to Larry Ellisons or Oracle Executives claiming this?
Yes I seen the link in the article, but that is just a guy writing down his guesses (wishes). It is not facts. So where are the facts and the true link?