[CLUE-Tech] Linux on Sparc: Need Media

Brandon N bneill at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 7 15:50:01 MDT 2004


--- marcus hall <marcus at tuells.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:05:04AM -0700, Brandon N wrote:
> > Solaris is free as in beer for systems with less than 1 CPU,
> 
> Presuming that systems have to have an integral, non-negative number
> of
> CPUs, this would only apply to systems with 0 CPUs, then...

That was suppose to be less than 2.

> 
> Isn't solaris supposed to be transitioning to an open-source model? 
> I'm
> sure I heard that somewhere recently.

Yeah, but open source does not mean GPL, or free as in beer, or for
that matter, free as in freedom, it just means you can read the source.
which, if you're a Linux developer, may not be a good thing.  

Brandon


	
		
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