Re: [Sheflug] Mad Hatter

[Jon Masters <jonathan [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, David Holden wrote:

> So they did not buy licenses from SCO then??

AFAIK they restated that their original UNIX source license was perpetual
and that the nature of Solaris meant that it was not affected.

SunOS was a derived work however I believe Solaris is by now a complete
rewrite with very little if any original source code in it.
Of course I would know for certain if they would provide me with a copy
however I have been mailing Sun about getting source for more than a year.

> Again solaris on intel will not beable to match linux on intel with regard to 
> ISV support by an ever increasing margin.

The point is that there is a reasonable installed SPARC Solaris user base
and Sun would probably rather lose a SPARC sale to an Intel box running
Solaris than one running Linux and besides those likely to use Solaris on
Intel are likely to be experienced Solaris Sysadmins anyway.

Jon.

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