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

From: John D Groenveld (groenvel_at_cse.psu.edu)
Date: 02/20/05


Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:49:55 +0000 (UTC)

In article <1108860398.435391@docbert>,
Scott Howard <scott@hunterlink.net.au> wrote:
>Buy a copy off ebay? Sure, it's not legal, but if you're using it on a
>home sun4m machine I can't really see anyone careing...

Is it in Sun's long-term interest to encourage folks to make their own
decisions about which parts of Sun's RTU licenses Sun cares enough to
enforce and which they can probably ignore?

John
groenveld@acm.org



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