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Re: [PLUG] Sun Iso's (was Solaris for Students)
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Edwardo,
I have been on SUN.com for a while now, and I can't find anything about
downloading Solaris 9 for free for the Sparc. Can you please direct me the
exact URL?
Thanks,
Naresh
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Edward M. Corrado wrote:
> Interesting that PLUG was talking about Solaris being free the same
> week that I received this update from Sun News. I cut out everything
> except the part about "free" Solaris. I took a quick peak at the site, and
> it looks like it will cost you $20 to download Solaris 8 for x86 or Sparc,
> but Solaris 9 for Sparc is a free download (I didn't see anything about
> the off-again on-again Solaris 9 for x86). It appears that in this case,
> we are talking about free beer and not free speech. Also, note that this
> is for machines with one processor. See the site for more details and the
> license agreement.
>
> --
> Edward Corrado
> President
> LUG/IP (Linux Users Group/In Princeton)
> ecorrado@lugip.org
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:27:40 +0000
> From: Sun Microsystems <sun-news@sun.com>
> To: ecorrado@rider.edu
> Subject: Sun News: The Buzz About Blades
>
> SUN NEWS
> http://sun.com
> 22 October 2002, Vol 3 No 41
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> PROMOTIONS: SOLARIS[sm] BINARY LICENSE PROGRAM
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Now you can use the Solaris[tm] 8 or 9 Operating Environment at
> home or at work -- without paying a license fee. For only the cost
> of media plus shipping or download related costs, you can use the
> software on single processor computers supplied to you by Sun or
> its authorized distributors or based on the Intel architecture.
> For complete details and restrictions, visit:
> http://sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/index.html?AssociateId=NEWS17
>
> For more special promotions from Sun, visit:
> http://sun.com/promotions/index.html?AssociateId=NEWS17
>
>
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