Re: Linux Advocates: Only bad thing is the license!

From: Hamilcar Barca (hamilcar_at_tld.always.invalid)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:26:47 -0700

In article <cqd5of$13l$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> (Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:07:27
+0000), Joerg Schilling wrote:

>>2.0 LIMITED LICENSE
>>Sun grants You a non-exclusive and non-transferable license to
>>internally reproduce and use Software solely for purpose of evaluation
>>in a test environment. Software shall not be used in a production
>>environment. (Refer to Section 5.2 for reporting requirements)
>
>
> Which means nothing but that Sun does not like you to complain when
> you may have problems with your business that are caused by bugs in the
> beta releases of Solaris.

Joerg, that's another lie. It clearly says "[s]oftware shall not be used
in a production environment". It doesn't once use the words "complain",
"bugs", or "beta releases".

> Sun even likes me to run Solaris beta in a production environment just
> because I am this way able to report problems that are caused by bugs that
> may not yet have been known.

Great! Post your successes in Solaris newsgroups. 

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 its business model yet again--this time to litigation and threats of
 litigation..."
-- IBM's Counterclaim against The SCO Group [SCOX].

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