Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:51:20 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. Message-ID: <199808122351.RAA16588@obie.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <199808122313.SAA06434@nospam.hiwaay.net> from David Kelly at "Aug 12, 98 06:13:09 pm"
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> Jim Bryant writes:
> > i haven't seen any traffic on this list concerning this, but this is
> > interesting.
> >
> > sun, the day before yesterday has made solaris for both x86 and sparc
> > free [shipping and handling like $10], for personal use.
>
> Specifically its $10.00 for the CD's. Then $8.50 is the least expensive
> domestic shipping. What the heck? I ordered a copy.
Me too. What the heck?
Sun's state purpose for doing this was two-fold: to get (and keep)
people educated in Solaris, and to make sure price isn't a reason
to not make freeware (including open source software) available for
Solaris. For instance, David Green-Seed can now make his FreeBSD
CDplayer available for Solaris. (He ported it to Linux after I
mailed him a free OpenLinux Lite CD-ROM.) I'm *certain* it won't
convince him to move his primary development efforts from FreeBSD
to Slowlaris, but it might convince him to port. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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