If Oracle charges for security patches on Solaris then we won't be able to have massive success stories like this one in Serbia:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=123103&tstart=0 Giving the O.S. and the patches for free or maybe giving the O.S. for free and the security patches for a small fee that someone in a third world country could afford (~ $25 yearly fee) would allow Oracle to get more market penetration with Solaris than they have ever had before. If Oracle sold a $50 or $75 version of OpenSolaris that came with video and music players and all the multimedia codecs, they could compete directly head to head against Microsoft in a way that Linux probably never will be able to do (due to the fact that there are so many thousands of different Linux distributions that are all incompatible with eachother wherease different OpenSolaris distros like Belenix and Nexenta can all use the same SysV packages to install software). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
