Disgruntled employee? Oracle doesn't seem to care about Solaris 11 code leak
- Wednesday, 21 December 2011 10:40
The source code for Oracle's Solaris 11 operating system is now out in the open for anyone to peruse and compile, thanks to a furtive posting of a compressed archive that has been mirrored across scores of bitstreams and filesharing sites. But so far, Oracle hasn't moved to do anything about it, and the question remains whether the code was leaked by a disgruntled Oracle employee, or if this is the strangest open-source code-drop in history.
"The question I have is, what is it?" said Bryan Cantrill, former Sun Microsystems engineer and developer of the DTrace diagnostics tool, and now vice president of engineering at Joyent, in an interview with Ars. "Is it a deliberate act or not?"
