Re: Free UNIX for non-commerical use.

Glenn_at_canit.se
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: 29 Jul 2003 21:26:37 +0100

> + On 27-Jul-03 09:41:29
 +Volker Borchert <v_borchert@despammed.com> wrote

>Anthony Mandic wrote:

>|>> Why on earth Sun don't change the licence conditions of their
>|>> so-called free licence for Solaris on SPARC, I don't know. Solaris can
>|>> be freely downloaded, yet its illegal to use it on virtually all used
>|>> Sun kit sold. Their previous licence, which allowed for its use on
>|>> machines of up to 8 CPUs seemed more sensible.

>|> Why? How many home users/students have 8 CPU systems?

>Dual or Quad processor Sparc-10/20 systems are not _that_ uncommon.

No (I have one home myself :) but more than 4 CPU's would be pretty
uncommon..

(btw my Quad CPU SS10 is nearly as fast as my Ultra1e on RC5-75 :)