[rescue] Anyone got a spare copy of Solaris 8/x86?

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Dec 11, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:47:53AM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
>
>> It's pretty much the polar opposite of how SGI was with IRIX.
>
> It probably has to do with when SUN got involved with UNIX. Their
> original UNIX licenses were based on the concept that they would  
> return
> all of their "improvements" to the public domain ala BSD.
>
Also, Sun bought themselves out of per-user license fees sometime in  
the 1995 timeframe.  Not sure if they paid Univel, Novell, or ATT for  
that.

Cordially

Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net