[geeks] Oracle Solaris may not be "free as in beer" going forward

Jonathan Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Wed Mar 31 22:26:39 CDT 2010


On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

> FWIW, Oracle has also killed off the educational "Matching Grant"
> program this year, which discounts certain configurations of their
> equipment by 50% for .edu's.

If anyone can completely alienate their customers by putting the screws to
them, all while making patently pornographic amounts of cash, it's Oracle.
This will be fun to watch.

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