Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA19344 for pups-liszt; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:21:43 +1100 (EST) Received: from begemot.org (negara.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.248.112]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA19340 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:21:35 +1100 (EST) Received: (from joerg@localhost) by begemot.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id OAA98715; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:23:07 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from joerg) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:23:07 +1300 From: "Joerg B. Micheel" To: Mirian Crzig Lennox Cc: UNIX Heritage Society Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8 Message-ID: <20000127142307.A98693@begemot.org> References: <20000127110321.I53307@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Mirian Crzig Lennox on Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 08:00:57PM -0500 Organization: Begemot Computer Associates Operating-System: ... powered by FreeBSD Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 08:00:57PM -0500, Mirian Crzig Lennox wrote: > Greg Lehey writes: > > > > The conditions look rather like the SCO ancient UNIX licences, but > > it's *cheaper* ($75, which includes deliverables from Sun). Warren, > > is this ammunition to lobby SCO to drop the prices of Ancient UNIX > > licenses? > > After looking at the site, it seems as though Sun is trying to prevent > licence holders from sharing code with other licence holders. If this > is true, it would certainly make the Solaris licence less desirable to > hobbyists than the ancient UNIX licence, unfortunately. You're right, as long as patches do contain portions of Solaris. Everything that does so has to funnel trough Sun first, this can be done by putting it onto their secure server. The restriction is that you can't share it freely, everything must be visible to Sun. This is slightly different from the original educational license, which allowed sharing with peers bound by the same license conditions. I think, popularity of Solaris might rather be restricted by its performance. I have run Solaris x86 on my desktop for a while for evaluation purposes. I don't think you could tune it easily to become as fast as a regular Linux or *BSD system. Apart from that, it certainly is the dinosaur solution of the decade. Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: Begemot Computer Associates Phone: +64 7 8562148 40 Masters Avenue, Hillcrest Fax: +64 7 8562148 Hamilton, New Zealand Pager: +64 868 38222