From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 12 06:33:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA27790 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 06:33:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA27784 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 06:33:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id PAA06598; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:32:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:32:04 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Stuart Henderson Cc: Pat Lynch , Greg Lehey , jgrosch@mooseriver.com, Nick Hibma , FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. References: <35D1862C.7B944B88@internationalschool.co.uk> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 12 Aug 1998 15:32:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: Stuart Henderson's message of "Wed, 12 Aug 1998 13:10:20 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id GAA27786 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stuart Henderson writes: > considering many current Windows users just want something a bit more > stable but still easy to use, couldn't care less whether they get > source, and Sun's recent work with InstallShield, there are probably a > lot of people that will > be pretty interested in Solaris... >From that perspective, Solaris x86 can be seen as an entry point to FreeBSD and the other free Unices. It will certainly give Unix in general more exposure, and people with Solaris experience who want a low-cost Unix for purposes disallowed by the free Solaris license will turn to us. Or am I daydreaming? DES "this message was brought to you by Solaris 2.5.1" -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message