Illumos Aims to Free Oracle’s Open Source Software

“With Oracle having remained relatively quiet about its plans
for OpenSolaris since it acquired the operating system — along
with the rest of Sun Microsystems — concern has been growing among
members of the OpenSolaris community about the project’s
future.

“Those concerns have now led to community action in the form of
the new Illumos project, founded to provide an alternative for
those that want to use OpenSolaris technologies, including the ZFS
filesystem.

“But the project’s supporters say their goal isn’t necessarily
to fork OpenSolaris. Instead, the Illumos project plans to create
open source versions of OpenSolaris components that Oracle does not
provide under an open source license, with the goal of creating a
new open source ecosystem around OpenSolaris technologies.”

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