From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 12 02:07:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA24507 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 02:07:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA24502 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 02:07:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5688) with SMTP id LAA09209; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:06:29 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:06:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Josef Grosch cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: solaris is free. In-Reply-To: <19980812014614.B16463@mooseriver.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. To be honest, x86 SOlaris has always been a bit a forgotten child in the Sun family. Sun likes to ship complete systems they can reliably support. Giving supports to PC weenies is not one of their favourite hobbies. Nick -- building: 27A address: STA-ISIS, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy tel.: +39 332 78 9549 fax.: +39 332 78 9185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message