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

From: GWS (one4sun_at_lios.apana.org.au)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:49:51 +0000 (UTC)

Dave <nospam@nowhere.com> writes:

>Sorry if this is old news (I've not checked the newsgroups recently) but
>can't see it in Google Groups.

>It would appear the 'Free Solaris Binary License Program' (which in its
>Solaris 9 version was not very "free" at all) seems to have ended.

>http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries_program.xml

>Instead it would appear (although I have not gone over the full terms of
>the license) that Soaris 10 really is free, even on multi-processor
>machines, under a 'Rights to Use' license.

>http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp

>This is good news I am sure.

>The only downside seems to be that Solaris 9 is no longer available,
>which is a shame for people with older machines.

I tried "http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/9 and the Solaris 9 page still
comes up complete with a 'Get the Software' button that goes to a page which
allows selection of downloading Solaris released from 7 through to 10.
However when you click on the Solaris 9 link it only presents a list of
options to buy media kits, not download ISO's... sigh

My most recent version of the genuine Solaris 9 media pack is 12/03 which is
quite dated now. I wonder if there is still a way to download ISO's for the
04/04 or later Solaris 9 releases (if there were any after 04/04)?

Regards,

Craig. 

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