Solaris for free?

[Stephane at u-picardie.fr (Stephane Alnet)]

At 20:05 08/12/1998 -0400, Chuck Young wrote:
>No validity is implied.  I'm waiting for confirmation myself, but it is an
>interesting thought...

>Chuck Young
>GTE Internetworking

Definitely a news: The first link on http://www.sun.com/software/Whats-new/
is to:
http://www.sun.com/developers/solarispromo.html

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