On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 01:48 +0100, Svein Skogen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 24.03.2010 00:57, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: > > Since this is an OpenSolaris board, why are you bringing up FreeBSD? You > > can't get official commercial support for FreeBSD any more than you can for > > Fedora or for Arch Linux, since all three are free, non-commercial > > distributions. So I don't see what advantage FreeBSD has for someone who > > wants to migrate from Solaris 10 over OpenSolaris. > > Maybe because FreeBSD doesn't require a support agreement for security > patches. Nor does any of those Linux distributions you mentioned. Or for > that matter Windows. > > This "you will no longer receive security updates" bit is what's > bothering people. And it sends out all the "right" (for someone) > messages: "You're either a $1M/year contract corporate customer, or > you're of no interest to us". If that's the message Oracle wants to get > across, they're doing things the correct way. If not, they _NEED_ to > wake up and doe something that does _NOT_ stink of that arrogant attitude. > > //Svein
Precisely. Thank you for putting it so succinctly. -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
