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> until Oracle closed their code in 2010 At that point, why credit Oracle instead of Sun? Oracle finalized their deal to buy Sun in January 2010. How much did
by pyre 12y ago
> until Oracle closed their code in 2010
At that point, why credit Oracle instead of Sun? Oracle finalized their deal to buy Sun in January 2010. How much did Oracle contribute between then and the announcement that they were closing their code?
Edit: Oracle announced closing OpenSolaris on August 13, 2010. The last "release" of OpenSolaris was June 2009.
- bahamat 12y agoOracle never publicly announced it. The last commit that I see copyrighted by Oracle is https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/ea10ff14a02f7788b8ec27b4b21b925542a8cca6 https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/ea10ff14a02f7... on August 18, 2010. After that, updates from Oracle silently stop. But your point stands well. Oracle only had a paltry 7-8 months of contributions. In my opinion, and I really don't know who would share this view, since Sun opened Solaris, illumos is now what Solaris was intended to be; it's not the illumos community that forked Solaris, it was Oracle.