Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 01:46:14 -0700 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. Message-ID: <19980812014614.B16463@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.00.9808120103400.6454-100000@redfish>; from Marc Slemko on Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 01:07:38AM -0700 References: <199808120750.BAA05604@harmony.village.org> <Pine.GSO.4.00.9808120103400.6454-100000@redfish>
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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
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