An example of the awesomeness of the open source community

“OpenSSO is one of the best (if it isn’t the best one) open
source web Single Sign On projects out there. Sun Microsystems on
2008 open-sourced one of their products called Access Manager, and
rebranded it as OpenSSO. But it’s sad to see how Oracle after Sun
acquisition, is slowly shutting down this amazing open source
project, marking it as “not strategic” and dismembering the few
parts they think are worth for their own SSO product. They started
on December by freezing the next express release, and during the
last few weeks they have slowly started to remove all the open
source downloads from OpenSSO website. Last but not least, they
have also started to remove content from the wiki. Now, the only
download available is the enterprise version, which is buried very
deeply at Oracle’s website (it took me like 15 minutes to find it,
it isn’t even listed as an Oracle product),and the patch sets that
also were free to download, are now only available to paying
customers with a valid support contract.”

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