If would Solaris Express follow some regular release cycle, (half a year, for example) then some of us could adapt ourselves to use binary-only releases, and form UGs around Solaris Express releases.
As I said once in one of mine previous posts, if Larry wants to give some money in charity purposes, then he could certainly sponsor something which is tightly related to its main business - UGs infrastructure. What I mean by that - he could say that each ORACLE representative has to give some meeting room when they are not using in it, once a week, just for UGs activities for 2-3h. He could sponsor artwork of Solaris Express, production of CDs, so we could give them to the people, T-Shirts, laptop stickers, panels, etc. UGs have no funds to sponsor it. What we can do is to organize ourselves and others to promote Solaris Express, and speak about technologies it offers. It is again win-win position, we are learning about new stuffs and ORACLE increases impact of its technologies. Uros NedicBelgrade, Serbia ---------------------------------------- > Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:46:53 -0700 > From: unixcons...@yahoo.com > To: kjard...@yahoo.com; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10,Oracle Solaris Express new license > > Hi, > > I really think people like you are reading too much into the license and over > reacting. So Oracle is going to give Solaris, Solaris Express, etc away for > free > for non-Production use. They say things like it's free for development, > testing, > etc. Why is this not flexible enough? Hell, just say you're writing a script > or > compiling stuff. Do you really think Oracle has time to chase after every > single > copy out there??? I mean come on! You're over reacting like tin-foil hat > paranoid freaktards! > > The bottom line is that Oracle wants people to pay if they are using it for > PRODUCTION USE! Will they expect people to pay for updates? I have no doubt > they'll charge support contacts for people who will want daily IPS depot > updates. What's wrong with that? Is that any different from RHEL or AIX? Just > because they don't specifically list using it as a desktop, home media server, > or a toaster, doesn't mean they are after you for money or going to take you > to > court. I think some people are taking this license too literally, and that's > just plain stupid. I've read it enough times to say I see nothing wrong with > SA's, developers, testers, enthusiasts using it. So what's the big deal??? > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > Octave J. Orgeron > Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant > Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com > E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Daniel Kjar > To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > Sent: Sat, September 11, 2010 7:37:52 PM > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10,Oracle Solaris Express new license > > To give you an idea of how self destructive this is, I am now moving all of my > operations to ubuntu (not my opensolaris desktop/file server though!). Today I > was able to get my sunrays running on 9.10 and tomorrow I will move them up to > 10.04. I can buy licenses for my sunrays for 100 dollars a pop, and patches > from oracle for 100 dollars a year. I cannot afford 2000 dollars a year for my > Blade and my X2200 for solaris. I would use it if I could but since I saw that > license today I am out of luck and will remove solaris from all of my > computers. I hope one of the new openindianas is straight up compatible with > srss 4.2 but I can't count on it. I am running an older version of 10 on my > x2200 so I should still be ok with the license for the moment. > > I am a professor and all of my work is non-commercial and I require no support > besides security updates. I would pay for those just as I pay for them with my > sunrays. Now, instead of my students seeing ORACLE on their workstations, they > will see UBUNTU. Their call. Seems absolutely self defeating to me but I guess > we do not count. If that is the case I will just move on. Pay for what I can > still afford and just turn my back on what I have really grown to enjoy. > > > Let me tell you how sick I am of going back to etc/init.d > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
