Re: End of "Free" Solaris binary licence program - now it's free.

From: John D Groenveld (groenvel_at_cse.psu.edu)
Date: 02/19/05


Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:40:16 +0000 (UTC)

In article <42177df5@212.67.96.135>, Dave <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote:
>which is a shame for people with older machines.

I suspect there will be OpenSolaris projects to support legacy
hardware.

John
groenveld@acm.org



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