>"Dmitry G. Kozhinov" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >I've never heard of any version of Solaris, commercial or otherwis= >e, >> >that was purposely crippled to use only limited RAM, disk space, >> >and CPU cores. >> >> That's because Solaris was under Sun, not under Oracle. > >In 1990 Sun did tell costomers that they have been planning to bundle the OS >license to the hostid of a machine. Fortunately, Sun did listen to their >customers and did not make it reality. >
And why did the OP expect that Oracle will behave differently: "Please note that Oracle doesn't use software keys. You can just install the software and use it. It is up to you and your consciences to license the software before using it. " (from the orafaq website; of course, it's not from the horse's mount) Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
