[juneau-lug] Re: January Meeting
- From: Matt Christian <mattc@xxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:23:49 -0900
James Zuelow wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:57:24 -0900
>"Clay Robidoux" <loki@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
>>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..
>>
>>
>>
>
>Well, that wasn't really my point anyway. I should have used a better
>example.
>
>With Solaris, you are not even allowed to copy the CDs and share them:
>
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>http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/faq.html#1q2
>--link may wrap--
>
>For that reason alone, I would strongly discourage anyone from sharing
>their Solaris CD set at a LUG meeting, or implying that it is OK to do
>so. According to the copyright owner it is not. It would be just
>like "sharing" your Windows 2000 CD set.
>
>The whole point of free software is that we can use it, share it, play
>with it, and learn from it without having to wear eye patches and say
>"aarrgh" all the time.
>
>Cheers,
>
>James
>
>
ARRG! =P
Matt
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