On 31 Mar 2010, at 17:50, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Chris Ridd wrote: > >>> Yesterday I noticed that the Sun Studio 12 compiler (used to build >>> OpenSolaris) now costs a minimum of $1,015/year. The "Premium" service >>> plan costs $200 more. >> >> The download still seems to be a "free, full-license copy" for SDN members; >> the $1015 you quote is for the standard Sun Software service plan. Is a >> service plan now *required*, a la Solaris 10? > > There is no telling. Everything is subject to evaluation by Oracle and it is > not clear which parts of the web site are confirmed and which parts are still > subject to change. In the past it was free to join SDN but if one was to put > an 'M' in front of that SDN, then there would be a subtantial yearly charge > for membership (up to $10,939 USD per year according to Wikipedia). This is > a world that Oracle has been commonly exposed to in the past. Not everyone > who uses a compiler qualifies as a "developer".
Indeed, but Microsoft still give out free "express" versions of their tools. If memory serves, you're not allowed to distribute binaries built with them but otherwise they're not broken in any significant way. Maybe this will also be the difference between Sun Studio and Sun Studio Express. Perhaps we should take this to tools-compilers. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
