https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2459

It's actually funny to go through these slides, August 3rd 2010, because the slides are like, because there's no way Oracle would be so stupid as to close the operating system. So like, that's obviously going to stay open and ... we're not going to be a fork, ... which I actually had misgivings about because I didn't necessarily want us to have to merge what was going on upstream when we couldn't control it. But that was what it was.

Well, this was actually resolved for us, and it was resolved for us in what I think is the one of the most shameful moments in the history of Open Source. ... On Friday August 13th 2010, this memo was sent out to folks internally at Sun, and in particular, in this memo "we will no longer distribute source code for the entirety of the OpenSolaris operating system or the Solaris operating system in real time." This is absolutely shameful. And it is shameful because for so many who worked so hard to open up this system, and not just for the folks inside of Sun. The reason that this is shameful, the reason that this is reprehensible is because a social contract was formed with the community. And there are folks, including folks in this room, that had source code that was contributed back under that copyright agreement under that copyright assignment and that source code was now being made proprietary. That is reprehensible. That is shitting in the pool of open source and it is disgusting corporate behavior. And sadly, it is behavior like this that forces the rest of us to need to be cynical and suspicious. This is a body blow for open source. And the worst thing was, not only was it shameful — it was cowardly. Because this was never publicly announced. Oracle has not publicly announced once — once — that they are stopping contributions to Open Solaris. They simply silently stopped. Now I get that the lawnmower doesn't just understand why that's a big deal. Okay, I get that. But you know what, we're not all lawnmowers and that's disgusting. It's cowardly behavior. And I have never been so embarrassed of my former colleagues than I was when I saw that mail. Humiliated.

And as it turns out it was a lie as it also says in there, "... following full releases of our Enterprise Solaris operating system, ... source license and code is going to be made available." Yeah well, Solaris 11 was shipped on November 9th 2011, and I don't see the goddamn source code. So now admittedly, in Oracle's defense, they didn't lie to us because they didn't tell us anything, right. They lied to themselves.