[rescue] Solaris 9 released

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed May 22 16:47:14 CDT 2002


On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:33:11PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> Yes, but the retrofitted the license to apply to Solaris 8.  Granted, if
> you've already downloaded Solaris 8 under the old agreement, they can't
> change it out from under you, but this still sucks.
> And my next Sun purchase was going to specifically fulfill my need for
> cheap 64-bit SMP.

Let me remind everyone that there is no cpu-checking or actual license
enforcement in Solaris.  Also, in going on six years of dealing with 
Sun now, I've never been asked for a binary license or even had to 
deal with licensing issues when installing Solaris on our machines.

*whistling*

Bill

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Bill Bradford     
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