[juneau-lug] Re: January Meeting

true enough, but then again I have yet to have the need to "tweek" any code
for a new platform.. besides which I would think it would be near impossible
to port from sparc to Intel.

with the available distros for whichever architecture you happen to be
running it would seem to be a redundant chore to port something over..


-----Original Message-----
From: juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James Zuelow
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:37 PM
To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: January Meeting



On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:03:53 -0900
"Clay Robidoux" <loki@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> just a reminder Solaris IS free if you own the hardware... and ebay
> is just a few clicks away...
>
>
Well, Internet Explorer is free too.  Just don't ask for the code...

You cannot download Solaris, tweak it a little bit (say, port it over
to Alpha hardware) and then distribute it.  Sun's lawyers would be all
over you.

"Free Software" does not refer to monetary cost.  It is a failing of
the English language that the same word has so many meanings.

Cheers,

James

------------------------------------
This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list.
To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the
word unsubscribe in the subject header.



------------------------------------
This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list.
To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the 
word unsubscribe in the subject header.

Other related posts: