[OpenIndiana-discuss] 2031 is near

[Adam Števko]

Hello,

guys, can we stop debating something that is not related to OI on this mailing lust? I know that many people still care about Solaris and what happens to it, but please get over it. It's been 7 years since illumos and Solaris separated and illumos chose different path. illumos/OpenIndiana has it's own future and instead of debating Oracle business decisions, go search illumos bug tracker and report / fix bugs, write blog posts about illumos/OpenIndiana etc.

If you wish to debate Oracle Solaris, use different mailing list for that. This mailing list is used for debating OI-related topics.

Thanks for uderstanding!

Cheers,
Adam

> On 28 Jan 2017, at 20:06, John D Groenveld <jdg117 at elvis.arl.psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> In message <alpine.GSO.2.20.1701281242350.20485 at freddy.simplesystems.org>, Bob 
> Friesenhahn writes:
>> Oracle determines who is allowed to run Solaris based on who they 
>> allow to purchase a support contract.  Once your hardware is no longer 
>> eligible for a support contract then it may no longer be legal to 
>> install Solaris on it, even if Solaris is being re-installed due to a 
>> disk failure.
> 
> Agreed, but so what?
> 
> If you're an Oracle customer in 2017 you know Larry Ellison prefers
> you over a barrel and you're comfortable with being in that low-volume,
> high-margin position.
> OI and illumos has long ago absorbed those Solaris users who aren't
> comfortable with that relationship.
> I've seen very few OI or illumos RFEs in this thread to enable the
> few if any remaining members of the Solaris ecosystem to escape
> Ellison's grasp if only...
> 
> John
> groenveld at acm.org
> 
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