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

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: 20 Feb 2005 12:40:33 GMT

hfrarg@nttvr2x3.pbgfr.arg (I R A Darth Aggie) writes:

>And there's plenty of time for Scooter to change his mind. And if he
>doesn't, so what? a year after you can get Solaris source, 95% of the
>code work will be produced by SUNW engineers. IMHO, that is. May that
>I be wrong.

So? I think the main motivation for opening Solaris is first
and foremost to help our current customers and to levarage
the current Solaris community into improving Solaris quality;
with dtrace, it becomes much easier to diagnose problems in
Solaris. Having the source code helps those along.

Casper 

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