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Is there no chance of saving Solaris? If Oracle doesn't have a commercial interest in it, why don't they transfer it to Apache or other foundation? It's not an unusual thing to do, and Solaris devs could make a living by support and maintenance.


Oracle has been slowly killing Solaris for some time. At the same time the community has already saved it - this is what illumos is about. It exists and is open source.




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