Re: Oracle changed the Solaris license terms?

On 20/03/2010 4:35 PM, Michael Laajanen wrote:
Hi,
Ian Collins wrote:
On 03/21/10 10:25 AM, Chris Ridd wrote:
On 2010-03-20 20:28:12 +0000, Ian Collins said:

On 03/21/10 09:18 AM, Non scrivetemi wrote:
Hi,

Is Solaris now only a 30 day trial and after that you have to pay? Or
can
you still download and use Solaris on x86 for free?

Um, the licensing information (from
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp) now says:

"Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is
limited to a trial of 90 days, unless you acquire a service contract
for the downloaded Software."

Does anyone have a copy of what it used to say?

The wayback machine (running on Solaris or OpenSolaris IIRC) shows the
page in 2008
<http://web.archive.org/web/20080614035850/http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/popup.jsp?info=17>.

It just says you must have an entitlement doc.

So the last sentence I quoted has been tacked on the end. Sneaky.

Well, not everything can be free on the world, Sun did not perform well
and something at Sun must change in order to make money doesn't it?

I have always seen Solaris in as RedHat and OpenSolaris as Fedora.

Organisations should pay for the license, personal use of a Enterprise
SW should be free IMHO.

/Michael


Couldn't agree more. While an organization should pay reasonable for a technology, it is cost prohibitive for many of us to pay retail to run this stuff. And by running it say at home, learning it, making skills available to businesses to use it... there is the value. As businesses are not going to shell out for technologoes that need full time @ $250/hr++ from Sun/Oracle. Might be ok to start for some with deep pockets, but not for most.

Oracle has been successful squeezing the $$$ out of clients, but at some point their model will be deemed over priced.

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