From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 12 01:47:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21708 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 01:47:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from superior.mooseriver.com (superior.mooseriver.com [208.138.27.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA21696 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 01:47:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.mooseriver.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA16644; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 01:46:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch) Message-ID: <19980812014614.B16463@mooseriver.com> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 01:46:14 -0700 From: Josef Grosch To: Marc Slemko , Warner Losh Cc: jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. Reply-To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com References: <199808120750.BAA05604@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Marc Slemko on Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 01:07:38AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 01:07:38AM -0700, Marc Slemko wrote: > Perhaps better taken to -chat? > > On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Warner Losh wrote: > > > In message <199808120437.XAA12411@unix.tfs.net> Jim Bryant writes: > > : sun, the day before yesterday has made solaris for both x86 and sparc > > : free [shipping and handling like $10], for personal use. > > > > Is it personal use or educational use? My reading of the pages > > earlier in the week suggested the latter. > > Both. > > Universities can get site license for educational stuff, users can get > free copies for "non-commercial" stuff. > > The license terms for the non-commercial use are at: > > http://www.sun.com/developers/promoterms.html > > The relevant part: > > 1. License to Use. Sun grants to you a non-exclusive and > non-transferable license to use the accompanying software and > documentation and any error corrections provided by Sun (collectively > "Software") for non-commercial purposes only. "Non-commercial" means > personal and not use for commercial gain or in connection with business > operations (such as MIS or other internal business systems). > > Note that this is only free in the sense that you can buy it > for a low cost from Sun. > > You don't get source. > > You don't get the ability to give copies to other people. My guess is that Sun is beginning to feel the heat from FreeBSD and Linux. Last time I looked very few people we running Solaris on X86. Mayby they are starting to worry about all those older Sparc's running NetBSD. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.7 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message