Sun's open source, a year later

by Alex Handy 01/19/2011 04:42 PM EST

Just a quick note to point everyone toward the blog work of Pelegri, who has posted a thorough tabulation of just what Oracle has done with all of the open source projects it inherited from Sun. Main take-away? Only VirtualBox remains unmolested, and from what I hear, it remains a very useful and popular free tool. Everything else? Not so much...

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