From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 12 16:52:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07657 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:52:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07641 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:52:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@obie.softweyr.com) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16588; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:51:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes) From: Wes Peters Message-Id: <199808122351.RAA16588@obie.softweyr.com> Subject: Re: solaris is free. In-Reply-To: <199808122313.SAA06434@nospam.hiwaay.net> from David Kelly at "Aug 12, 98 06:13:09 pm" To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:51:20 -0600 (MDT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] 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 > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message