Hi, I really think people like you are reading too much into the license and over reacting. So Oracle is going to give Solaris, Solaris Express, etc away for free for non-Production use. They say things like it's free for development, testing, etc. Why is this not flexible enough? Hell, just say you're writing a script or compiling stuff. Do you really think Oracle has time to chase after every single copy out there??? I mean come on! You're over reacting like tin-foil hat paranoid freaktards!
The bottom line is that Oracle wants people to pay if they are using it for PRODUCTION USE! Will they expect people to pay for updates? I have no doubt they'll charge support contacts for people who will want daily IPS depot updates. What's wrong with that? Is that any different from RHEL or AIX? Just because they don't specifically list using it as a desktop, home media server, or a toaster, doesn't mean they are after you for money or going to take you to court. I think some people are taking this license too literally, and that's just plain stupid. I've read it enough times to say I see nothing wrong with SA's, developers, testers, enthusiasts using it. So what's the big deal??? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Daniel Kjar <kjard...@yahoo.com> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Sat, September 11, 2010 7:37:52 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10,Oracle Solaris Express new license To give you an idea of how self destructive this is, I am now moving all of my operations to ubuntu (not my opensolaris desktop/file server though!). Today I was able to get my sunrays running on 9.10 and tomorrow I will move them up to 10.04. I can buy licenses for my sunrays for 100 dollars a pop, and patches from oracle for 100 dollars a year. I cannot afford 2000 dollars a year for my Blade and my X2200 for solaris. I would use it if I could but since I saw that license today I am out of luck and will remove solaris from all of my computers. I hope one of the new openindianas is straight up compatible with srss 4.2 but I can't count on it. I am running an older version of 10 on my x2200 so I should still be ok with the license for the moment. I am a professor and all of my work is non-commercial and I require no support besides security updates. I would pay for those just as I pay for them with my sunrays. Now, instead of my students seeing ORACLE on their workstations, they will see UBUNTU. Their call. Seems absolutely self defeating to me but I guess we do not count. If that is the case I will just move on. Pay for what I can still afford and just turn my back on what I have really grown to enjoy. Let me tell you how sick I am of going back to etc/init.d -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
