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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Aug 2010 23:22 UTC, submitted by historyb

The OpenSolaris governing board fell on its collective sword Monday and resigned en masse after Oracle continued to ignore its ultimatum to appoint a liaison guy to work with it on the future of the open source project. The move was anticlimactic to say the least. Oracle last week leaked an internal e-mail into the wild effectively saying OpenSolaris is dead. The news of the mass resignation, coupled with Oracle suing Google claiming Android infringes on its Java patents, had Adobe's director of open source and standards David McAllister casting Oracle as the New Microsoft and saying "the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or so".

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RE: That's a shame

by Beket_ on Fri 27th Aug 2010 00:18 UTC in reply to "That's a shame"

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2009-07-10

Nature hates vacuum.

I estimate that the gap Oracle left behind will be filled in by some other organisation. It will just take some time

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RE[2]: That's a shame

by tylerdurden on Fri 27th Aug 2010 14:35 in reply to "RE: That's a shame"

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2009-03-17

So it is that why most of the universe is vacuum? ;-)

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RE[3]: That's a shame

by Laurence on Tue 31st Aug 2010 07:16 in reply to "RE[2]: That's a shame"

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2007-03-26

So it is that why most of the universe is vacuum? ;-)

It isn't really though. Partials are constantly being created and destroyed, gravitational forces are present and there's a wash of background radiation.
And that's not to mention the highly theoretical stuff like dark energy and dark flow.

In short, true vacuums don't exist.

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RE[2]: That's a shame

by marcp on Fri 27th Aug 2010 20:46 in reply to "RE: That's a shame"

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2007-11-23

Nature hates vacuum.

Oh really? So how come we have plenty of it in the universe?

I dislike anthropocentric view of the world, but that's slightly offtopic.

I'm also worried about OpenOffice, we don't have an alternative fork at the moment [GoOo is bunch of the patches].

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RE[3]: That's a shame

by Lazarus on Fri 27th Aug 2010 21:45 in reply to "RE[2]: That's a shame"

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2005-08-10

"Nature hates vacuum.

Oh really? So how come we have plenty of it in the universe? I dislike anthropocentric view of the world, but that's slightly offtopic.

I'm also worried about OpenOffice, we don't have an alternative fork at the moment [GoOo is bunch of the patches]. "

Serious question: is KOffice really so bad that it can't be considered a viable alternative to OpenOffice?

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