Solaris Gets Oracle-ized: "It appears the Solaris free ride is over. Oracle is clamping down on the freeloading riffraff.
No more perpetual use of the operating system without coughing up some dough. Oracle says any downloads of Solaris 10, the stable version of the Sun operating system, are only good for a 90-day trial, then you have to pay for a support contract to keep using it.
Under Sun’s administration it was free for the price of a valid e-mail address and a form specifying the number of systems the stuff would be running on.
OpenSolaris, the free community version, is not impacted – at least for the moment – but as a monetizing inducement, shall we say, it looks like Oracle may not open source new features being developed for Solaris."
