Hotmail users are not banned from this mailing-list ? :-)
Dear, if I'm not wrong, you don't understand what is OpenSource.
Please visit
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php.
To be OpenSource, Solaris should be distributed in source format, under a
licence that is compatible with the principles contained in the OpenSource
definition. It is not at all the case yet, as far as I know.
Solaris 10 is available for free (as a beer, = gratis) download. You still need
to agree on a licence that is not at all OpenSource compliant. You can't (as far
as I know) get the source code, so Solaris 10 is downloadable as a freeware.
Full stop. It is purely proprietary software.
Few last versions of Solaris were also available the same way (or by mail) for
0 or the cost of the shipment. This has never done Solaris an OpenSource
neither a Free Software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation
(
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html).
Sun is currently thinking about releasing the source code of Solaris under an
OpenSource licence, but hasn't even yet said what kind of licence it will be.
"MARCO FARDELLINI" <fardellini(a)hotmail.com&gtm> wrote:
Hello,
SUN Microsystems is going open up today.
You can be able today to register yourself on
www.sun.com and download the
operating system for free.
Take a look it is quit intersting how SUN presents this new approach.
Regards,
Marco
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