[Gllug] He who controls the bootloader

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue Aug 28 16:20:39 UTC 2001


On Tuesday, 28 Aug 2001, Richard Cohen wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, David Damerell wrote:
>> Also, it'll raise the question of why you don't have to pay for a
>> Solaris OS license if it's for a blue box (since they can't very well
>Sorry dude - Solaris is free for machines below a certain number of
>processors (8, I think).  You can go download it if you've got a big enough
>pipe...

Er, yes, quite. My mistake; my memory was stuck in the old 'free for
non-commercial use' days.

>This is starting to get off-topic.  If anyone wants to take it off-list,
>feel free...

I'll wait for howls of protest; if no-one does protest, I think
discussing what the proprietary UNIX boys are up to is very much
on-topic - especially when it's a Linux system they have their hands
on.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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