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From: vedmak on 11 May 2010 06:56
I recently installed solaris 7 and created myself a sunsolve account,
however to get to patches I need to have premium account? I thought
that they had patch clusters free of charge.
From: Ceri Davies on 11 May 2010 08:34
On 2010-05-11, vedmak <vedmak90(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently installed solaris 7 and created myself a sunsolve account,
> however to get to patches I need to have premium account? I thought
> that they had patch clusters free of charge.

Certainly not for Solaris 7. In fact, I believe that for a new
installation of Solaris 7 you would be required to buy a license.

Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
From: vedmak on 11 May 2010 09:25
On May 11, 6:34 am, Ceri Davies <ceri_use...(a)submonkey.net> wrote:
> On 2010-05-11, vedmak <vedma...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I recently installed solaris 7 and created myself a sunsolve account,
> > however to get to patches I need to have premium account? I thought
> > that they had patch clusters free of charge.
>
> Certainly not for Solaris 7.  In fact, I believe that for a new
> installation of Solaris 7 you would be required to buy a license.
>
> Ceri
> --
> That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
>                                                   -- Moliere

is there any way to avoid paying them $300 a year? Such as student
accounts or developer accounts?
From: Richard B. Gilbert on 11 May 2010 09:36
vedmak wrote:
> I recently installed solaris 7 and created myself a sunsolve account,
> however to get to patches I need to have premium account? I thought
> that they had patch clusters free of charge.

Several years ago, Sun changed its business model. Solaris was licensed
without charge. Support is something you must pay for. Patches are
part of support.

Since Solaris is Open Source, in principle you could fix all the bugs
yourself. In practice, you probably don't want become sufficiently
familiar to maintain a couple of million lines of code!

Solaris 7 hasn't been supported for several years now. Just guessing,
it's something like ten or twelve years since S7 was current!
From: Michael Laajanen on 11 May 2010 09:46
Hi,
Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> vedmak wrote:
>> I recently installed solaris 7 and created myself a sunsolve account,
>> however to get to patches I need to have premium account? I thought
>> that they had patch clusters free of charge.
>
> Several years ago, Sun changed its business model. Solaris was licensed
> without charge. Support is something you must pay for. Patches are
> part of support.
>
> Since Solaris is Open Source, in principle you could fix all the bugs
> yourself. In practice, you probably don't want become sufficiently
> familiar to maintain a couple of million lines of code!
>
> Solaris 7 hasn't been supported for several years now. Just guessing,
> it's something like ten or twelve years since S7 was current!

S7 5/99 was the last I received

/michael
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