Do you mean SunOS 4.x when you say SunOS? If so, this is an OS Sun has closed
years ago - they are only supporting Solaris 2.x for their new machines. I
would like to know if Sun is also that open regarding libs from Solaris.
About a year ago, our computer club received a few old Sun/3 machines (not very
fast, but nice and big monitors for free!). We were able to get a letter from
Sun saying that we may use any SunOS version for these machines without having
to worry about licenses, royalties or any other payments to them! Sun thinks
these machines are old and there is no money to earn with them any more. The
same may now slowly become true with SunOS 4.x for Sparc...
Nevertheless, I also have the impression that Sun is a bit more open to the
needs of universities and people working on a non-commercial base. When
looking at universities (at least in germany), it looks to me that Sun has
a dominant position in equipping them with workstations. Their CPUs aren't
faster than CPU's from other vendors, so there must be other reasons...
Alfred Arnold
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