[osol-mktg] how much is opensolaris "free" ?

[Joerg Schilling]

Patrick Finch <Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It's a great question.  You'd probabaly want to sell a PC with an 
> OpenSolaris distribution pre-installed, and there are now four: Nexenta, 
> BeleniX, SchilliX and Solaris.  Under the CDDL, the charging (or not) 
> for the distribution is down to that distribution, not Sun.

You cannot use Sun Solaris because Sun Solaris is not yet as free as
free beer. Note that everybody who likes free Sun Solaris need to 
download it himself.


> A Solaris license is free, although there is a requirement to register a 
> system if the license is for commercial use.  I'm checking with the 
> business group at Sun to see if they actually have a programme to help 
> people who want to sell a PC with Solaris pre-installed.  I don't know 
> of any restrictions on doing so (I will check).  Simply selling a system 
> with Solaris on is, of course, different to being an accredited Sun partner.

>From my understanding, the CDDl would allow the maker of a distribution
to take money for redistribution licenses.

SchilliX is license free although I would be really happy if there was a 
way to make SchilliX development be possible in future inside Fraunhofer Fokus.
So if someone would start selling preinstalled PCs, it would be nice if there
was a way to help funding the SchilliX project.

Jörg

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