UNIX admin wrote:
>> Maybe, just maybe, if the clowns
>> at the DLC figure 
>> out, that regardless of their attempts to obfuscate
>> the download 
>> process, that there are reasonable people who can
>> always outwit them, 
>> then they'll give up their demented plan to
>> marginalize SXCE.
>>     
>
> I guess you are joking, but I'll indulge in pointing the obvious: the 
> notorious Sun marketing wants to track who is downloading Nevada. I guess 
> they figure they can get the poor IT guys to do the slaving and perform the 
> data mining for them. The end goal should be obvious, not all Nevada 
> downloads are by geeks. Some of the people downloading might actually have 
> money, or work at places willing to shell out money for overpriced Sun gear!
>
> No wonder why Sun marketing is so notoriously bad. Irritating: OpenSolaris 
> should have NOTHING to do with Sun, especially Sun marketing. The fact that 
> it still does is frustrating, to say the least.
>  
>   
OpenSolaris != SXCE.

Sun are free to distribute their OpenSolaris distributions anyway they
see fit.  Whether they shoot them selves in the foot is their business!

Ian

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