Re: What is the maximal length of usernames on Solaris?

From: Alan Coopersmith (alanc_at_alum.calberkeley.org)
Date: 11/20/03


Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:53:11 +0000 (UTC)

dragan_usenet@gmx.net writes in comp.sys.sun.admin:
|Graham Lee <graham.lee@wadham.oxford.ac.invalid.uk> writes:
|
|>> Windows is only given users what Bill Gates want to give to them . If you
|>> want to add something to the
|>> system you cannot as the code is still confidential ( think about the
|>> complaint of the CEE against Microsoft ).
|>
|> The Solaris code is also confidential, isn't it? As was SunOS', IIRC.
|
|Not if you are an university. And Solaris 8 source code was available for
|some time.

The license for both of those still require you to keep the bits
confidential and not share with others.

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