Disgruntled employee? Oracle doesn't seem to care about Solaris 11 code leak

The source code for Oracle's Solaris 11 operating system is now out in the open for anyone to peruse and compile, thanks to a furtive posting of a compressed archive that has been mirrored across scores of bitstreams and filesharing sites. But so far, Oracle hasn't moved to do anything about it, and the question remains whether the code was leaked by a disgruntled Oracle employee, or if this is the strangest open-source code-drop in history.

Rather than it being a stealth code drop by Oracle or an attempt to trap open source developers, many in the community believe the leak is just that—a leak by a disgruntled Oracle employee. And Cantrill said there are no doubt plenty of those, as Oracle has disenfranchised many engineers and the company's culture has driven away a large portion of Sun's engineering talent—including Cantrill himself, who left Oracle in July of 2010.