Sun wants $20 for Solaris 9.0

[amexblue]

whatever happened to free software

 

[Luden]

They decided they cant stay alive giving away stuff...

 

[beer]

$20 for how many sleepless nights for those programmers?

Get a life.

Free software doesn't work economically. The ones that succeed are the exception and not the rule.

 

[notfred]

Why would you run Solaris voluntarily anyway?

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: Elemental007
$20 for how many sleepless nights for those programmers?

Get a life.

Free software doesn't work economically. The ones that succeed are the exception and not the rule.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: amexblue


whatever happened to free software

they realized that there gonna go bankrupt.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: notfred
Why would you run Solaris voluntarily anyway?

why would anyone give away any of there hard work for free and try to make a business out of it.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: notfred
Why would you run Solaris voluntarily anyway?

LOL

That was great...


ahhh..I feel good now...I was alright diesting after a nice meanl that made me feel so much better

 

[brtspears2]

If you can afford sun hardware and all its strange connectors, I think you can afford $20 ... or Im still stuck in 1999

 

[outriding]

if i remember correctly redhat posted a profit last year.

brtspears... sun 9.0 runs on a i386 and has before 1999

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: amexblue


whatever happened to free software

they realized that there gonna go bankrupt.

Very funny.

Give credit where it's due. Sun is one of the few companies to compete directly with MS, and not have been squashed into oblivion. The others I can think of offhand are Intuit, Oracle, and AOL (don't laugh but they did handle the MSN threat to date). It's easy to stifle competition when you're a legal monopoly engaging in illegal business activities.

 

[Yomicron]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
If you can afford sun hardware and all its strange connectors, I think you can afford $20 ... or Im still stuck in 1999

The SPARC version if free to download, but you have to pay $20 to download the x86 version.

 

[Soybomb]

Originally posted by: notfred
Why would you run Solaris voluntarily anyway?

I suspect a high correlation between the number of people who voluntarily run solaris and those who enjoy whips and chains stuff in the bedroom

$20 isn't bad for an OS though even if its not my favorite.

 

[brtspears2]

Hmm, please excuse my last comment.

But overall, aren't we suppose to pay for software? Though its not something that takes up space, someone had to sweat to make it, so someone needs to get paid ...

 

[ElFenix]

software used to come with the hardware... it wasn't until relatively recently that software became a pay-for item, which is when the FSF was founded (ok late 70s/early 80s)

 

[element]

Originally posted by: Soybomb

Originally posted by: notfred
Why would you run Solaris voluntarily anyway?

I suspect a high correlation between the number of people who voluntarily run solaris and those who enjoy whips and chains stuff in the bedroom ....

Are those like Macsochists? People who use Macs?

 

[outriding]

Originally posted by: notfred
Why would you run Solaris voluntarily anyway?

actually if you want to learn solaris at home

 

[XZeroII]

I can't believe someone would complain about a company asking $20 for their software

Sun has spent millions developing Solaris and you just want it for free??? I bet you walk into your local super market, fill up your cart and start tearing the cashier a new one because you have to pay $2 for a gallon of milk. Those greedy farmers!! They don't need to eat food and live in a house!

 

[T2T III]

Maybe the $20 is for printing the CDs and the associated printed materials that come along with the package.

 

[Derango]

Originally posted by: wje
Maybe the $20 is for printing the CDs and the associated printed materials that come along with the package.

I'd love to see what kind of package and printed manuals you get when you download it

Sun is within their rights of charging $20 for THEIR OS.

 

[zoiks]

I use Aix, UX, Solaris and Linux at work. The sun machine that we have may have different cable connectors but it is a real sturdy machine. We use it to run our data conversion and it runs consistently for weeks doing number crunching.
Good machines those sun blokes make.