From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 1 17:22:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF353FAB for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:21:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA02154; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 18:21:48 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAl5ayke; Tue Feb 1 18:21:43 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA29089; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 18:21:43 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200002020121.SAA29089@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Solaris for free!? To: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 01:21:43 +0000 (GMT) Cc: damien@tougas.net (Damien Tougas), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000131110412.Z13027@fw.wintelcom.net> from "Alfred Perlstein" at Jan 31, 2000 11:04:12 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > * Damien Tougas [000131 07:44] wrote: > > Looks like Sun is going to be giving away Solaris 8 for both > > commercial and non-commercial use, and they plan on releasing > > it a couple of weeks before Windows 2000. Woah. Talk about > > the competition heating up... > > > > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1531871.html?dtn.head > > http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/cover/sol8.html > > What competition? To see the longest it takes to get an OS unto a > usable state? I suggest a FreeBSD press release that "we are releasing the source for free before Solaris, so as to undercut their thunder in releasing their source before Windows 2000 comes out", or something similar. People who haven't heard of FreeBSD before are likely to print it. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message