Oracle murders free OpenSolaris CD shipping

Found on The Register on Wednesday, 14 April 2010
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A day before the death of the free CD shipping program, a "Call to Action" thread on the OpenSolaris Governance Board (OGB) mailing list howled for more information on Oracle's plans for the platform, and some suggested that the project should be forked.

Oracle has also tweaked the Solaris download license so that the OS can only be used for 90 days - unless you purchase a service contract.

So now OpenSolaris is pretty much dead, move on. While you move, make sure you move away from Oracle who obviously is very afraid of giving something back to the Open Source community. With this happening to OpenSolaris, chances are rising that the same might happen to MySQL.