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

From: Sam Nelson (sam_at_ssrl.org.uk)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:46:55 +0000 (UTC)

In article <ey37jl2qfjw.fsf@cley.com>,
 Tim Bradshaw <tfb@cley.com> writes:
> * Tim wrote:
> > Except for the QA benefits of in-house usage. Sun's business isn't
> > web hosting, it's producing Solaris and computers that run Solaris.
> > If running sun.com on Solaris 10 helps the product, I'd hope that's
> > exactly what they'd do.
>
> Well, against the QA benefits I hope they weigh the publicity issues
> with some unforseen bug taking down their web presence. I know what
> I'd do...

Sun not running sun.com on some sort of Solaris rates up there with Microsoft
not running Hotmail on Windows. I think they could be excused from having
to be using the very latest Solaris: after all, ultimately, one should be
given some flexibility in the choice of when to update. I used to work for
a project-management-software company that used its own project-management
software to manage its software projects. It was useless. Nuff said... 

-- 
SAm.

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