[rescue] Solaris soon open source

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Wednesday 02 June 2004 13:44, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:33:38PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 June 2004 13:24, Thomas Gallaway wrote:
> > > Just fell over this news headline:
> > > http://www.cooltechzone.com/reviews/itcomputing/sun_002.php
> > >
> > > "Sun Microsystems, one of the biggest names in the server world,
> > > reported that the company will now make Solaris an open source
> > > project. Sun is not sure as to when the move of making Solaris
> > > open source will take place at this point."
> >
> > This seems unlikely, especially after the news story yesterday (or
> > maybe a few days ago) where Sun said that *hardware* was going to
> > be free in the future.
>
> Sun said *HARDWARE* was going to be free...?!?

Aparently "free with qualified software purchase."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/01/1627236

Pat
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