Scott Howard was once rumoured to have said: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:15:59PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Scott Howard"> > > > > It's kinda like Linux, only suits choose it first, and it's proprietary. It > > > In what way is Solaris proprietary? > > > > There aren't any free software licenses on this page: > > http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/licensing.html > > You must have missed the bit on tha page which says "Free Solaris[sm] > Binary License Program"
Yes, but thats Free as in Gratis, not Libre. Big difference. >>> Sun will _not_ be replacing CDE with Gnone anytime soon, and most likely >>> not ever. They _will_ be including Gnone in addition to CDE in one of the >>> Solaris 9 maintenance updates >> >> CDE didn't 'replace' OpenWindows, although it did become the default. The >> same will go for GNOME (should it be released in a timely fashion). > > Well given that my Solaris 9 box has CDE and no openwindows, I'd say that > CDE did replace openwindows. CDE is a different matter. Solaris is SVR4 > complaint, and CDE is a part of that compliance. The only way Sun will Freudian slip, eh? > drop CDE is either if they also drop SVR4 (very unlikely), or if SVR4 > drops CDE (slightly less likely, but still very unlikely). However, I fail to see how the desktop environment is an essential part of being an SVR4 - look at Irix for example. > Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'll go back to running rc5-64 on my 20x > 750Mhz US3 processor Solaris box (25.6 million keys/sec day before > yesterday...) Please, not *another* DSW. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
