Re: Solaris 10, questen for Peter Korn

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Hank,

hank smith wrote:
> what is the url for this?

The URL for the download of Solaris 10, or for the License agreement itself?

The download URL is: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp

The license URL is: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/popup.jsp?info=17


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Haneman" <Bill Haneman Sun COM>
> To: "Peter Korn" <Peter Korn Sun COM>
> Cc: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:14 AM
> Subject: Re: Solaris 10, questen for Peter Korn
>
>
> > Petra/Peter:
> >
> > The text you found in the registration process just means that you 
> > won't receive an official right-to-use document if you don't provide a 
> > valid email address to send it to.
> > Solaris 10 has recently been made available as open source;  a few 
> > small pieces that Sun doesn't own the 'intellectual property' rights 
> > to are not open-sourced so far, but the vast majority of Solaris is 
> > open sourced now.  So there is now something called "OpenSolaris" 
> > which is almost identical which you can download, or build, modify and 
> > redistribute, under a fully free software license.  (There are 
> > probably some additional requirements on the download page because of 
> > US export law, but nothing onerous from a free software perspective to 
> > the best of my knowledge).  The latest version of Solaris with the 
> > latest fixes is available to registered OpenSolaris users as "Solaris 
> > Express, Community Edition".  This is all free of charge (unless you 
> > want technical support or a service contract, of course, which is not 
> > free).
> >
> > I expect that in the very near future this will be the easiest and 
> > best way to get pre-tested gnopernicus, gok, and AT-SPI in a free 
> > distro, if it isn't already.  I'll try and do some more research to 
> > find out whether the accessibility test suite (which Sun uses 
> > internally for its Solaris 10 and Solaris.next "Nevada" builds) can be 
> > added to the community OpenSolaris test suite.
> >
> > I would also very much like to see other distros testing the 
> > accessibility stack, since some folks will of course still wish to run 
> > Linux instead of Solaris and the whole idea is "universality" of our 
> > work.  We're trying to work with Ubuntu to get a working liveCD 
> > version, but it seems from the recent omission of atk-bridge from 
> > Ubuntu that they aren't testing accessibility yet.
> >
> > best regards,
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > Peter Korn wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Petra,
> > >
> > > > In the Licensing Information for Solaris 10 I fund the following
> > > > Pharagraph.
> > > >
> > > > The registration process to receive an Entitlement Document is part 
> > > > of the Solaris 10 download process, with the Entitlement Document 
> > > > being returned to
> > > > you via e-mail. For this reason, YOU MUST PROVIDE A WORKING E-MAIL 
> > > > ADDRESS AS PART OF YOUR SUN DOWNLOAD CENTER ACCOUNT. If you fail to 
> > > > do so, you will
> > > > not receive an Entitlement Document and will only have the right to 
> > > > evaluate the Solaris 10 OS for 90 days.
> > > >
> > > > Are there any limitations in function (including accessebility) 
> > > > during this 90 days evalation
> > > > piriord?
> > > >
> > > > Could I in fact evaluate Gnopernicus using Solaris 10?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hmmm... I am unfamiliar with this License document.  What we ship in 
> > > Solaris 10 is an unmodified version of Gnopernicus.  No 
> > > trial/evaluation code is running that cause the application to stop 
> > > running after a certain number of minutes or days.  You can 
> > > definitely evaluate Gnopernicus using Solaris 10. Please note though, 
> > > the word of open source moves fairly fast, and Solaris 10 was built 
> > > in January, 2005.  Gnopernicus and GNOME and FreeTTS and various 
> > > other accessibility bits were frozen in November/December 2004.  
> > > There have been many bug fixes in the entire GNOME and accessibility 
> > > software stack, in the accessibility implementations of programs like 
> > > Mozilla and Evolution, since that time.  One particularly annoying 
> > > bug affects the FreeTTS speech synthesizer when used by Gnopernicus - 
> > > under stress it can go silent, and the Solaris 10 edition of 
> > > Gnopernicus won't re-start it (that's been fixed).
> > >
> > > Sun releases periodic updates to Solaris.  Solaris 10 Update 1 will 
> > > contain a number of very important accessibility fixes (as well as a 
> > > number of important fixes having nothing to do with accessibility) - 
> > > the speech issue I mentione above is one such fix.  I'll send out an 
> > > announcement when it is available.
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Peter Korn
> > > Sun Accessibility team
> > >
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