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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (32973)	11/8/1999 1:52:00 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Well, hey, with your influence and mine, if solaris is such a throw away to sun, I am sure you would join with me in requesting that they give away the source code for solaris. That way, we won't deny these poor unfortunate 500MM IPOS to write for Ultra Sparc. I am sure you will agree with that. BTW, you never did tell the thread what your relationship is to sunw. Duke

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (32973)	11/8/1999 2:11:00 AM
From: ed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Well, DELL/CPQ/HWP/GateWay licensed the OS from Microsoft / Linux and sold as one single package , but someone claimed that that conduct will hurt the consumers , because consumers will have less choice. So you are telling me SUNW is hurting consumers by bundle the hardware and software as one single package !! I want to buy SUN's sparc station with HP's OS , can you provide that solution ? Or I will sue SUNW to harm me as a consumer!!!!

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (32973)	11/8/1999 2:37:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

On the PC, all O/S's should be provided free-of-charge. Sun doesn't breakout Solaris revenues on Ultras because they are sold as a unit. Oh, I see. It's a "bundling" thing. It's only evil when Microsoft does it. What happens if a business wants to buy an Ultra unbundled from Solaris so they can run some hypothetical competitor's operating system, or one they wrote in house? Will they hear "No! In order to buy our hardware you must also buy our software!"? I seem to remember a company that had a little spat with the government over that in the past. It's fairly well known and goes by its initials.