[Info-vax] open source OpenVMS (Re: Oracle-RDB seminar notes)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-04-02, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
>
> You can only develop and demonstrate applications, not actually use them.
>

So Oracle did the same kind of thing to Rdb as they did with Solaris 10.

Sun made Solaris 10 free to use; but Oracle changed the license terms
to stop people using it for any production work. In the case of Solaris 10,
Oracle added language to the license to restrict it to a 90 day evaluation
period unless you also bought a service contract.

Some background reading I just found:

http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/license-change-leaves-sun-solaris-users-crossroads-858

Simon.

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