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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:13:25 +1100
From: Erik de Castro Lopo <nos...@mega-nerd.com>
Organization: Erik Secret Conspiracy Labs
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Subject: Re: Solaris 10 for Free! - Comments, Reactions and Opinions
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Isma'il Adeniran wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm sure you're all aware that Sun's offering Solaris 10 for free except
> for support.

At the momemnt, this release is still free as in beer, not free as in
speech. Its also a binary only release. The source may or may not be
released at some later stage.

> I must say, it's very compelling to (consider a) switch from Linux
> [blasphemy !?!].

Why? What do you think Solaris offers that Linux doesn't?

Erik
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