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To: Judd who wrote (413)	12/9/1997 1:10:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 1600

When you go to that page the second paragraph starts, "The source code will be offered free to customers who purchase an additional product from Sun." This is what I discovered today when Sun got back to me about the "evaluation program", except for companies you don't get as good a deal. Some virtue. At least MSFT is virtually free.

To: Judd who wrote (413)	12/9/1997 12:05:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Re: solaris source code availability I received this email today from someone in the chemistry dept. at Michigan State Univ.: "It's available to universities for instruction and research. I don't think it can be obtained commercially. LINUX source code is avaialable however if you are interested in studying the UNIX operting system. LINUX may acctually impact NT more than Solaris in that it is free and because of it's performance it can leverage older 486 systems into server applications that would require a hardware upgrade if NT were used."