Kaiwai Gardiner writes: > > I think it would be great if Sun gave these sorts of tasks a bit more > > priority and started to seriously consider the desktop market. It's > > not > > high margin like selling mainframes, but I'd think Sun could make a > > serious > > competitor to Microsoft and Apple if we wanted to. > > I'm surprised that Sun can't get access to those windows codecs under > the agreement which Sun and Microsoft signed.
I'm not surprised. Access isn't the problem -- licensing is. Licensing is a tricky business in the best of cases, because it's entirely possible to have products that you can legally ship on one OS but that you cannot sell the rights to or ship with some other OS. I think it's a great idea to ask those involved with MS (whoever they are ;-}) to investigate some sort of porting effort like this, but don't be surprised if the answer is a fairly opaque "no." -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
