Re: Embedded C Compiler On Linux Targeting Motorola 68K


"Chris H" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In message <4766a8d9.1306680640@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stephen Pelc
<stephenXXX@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:08:53 +0100, David Brown
<david.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Other than your knee-jerk reaction against anything open source, do you
have any actual *logic* for a company to support a Solaris tool and not
a Linux version?

Could it just be that people who use Solaris are more willing to
pay for software than people who use Linux?

Most of the areas where Solaris is used cost is not the primary driver. It
is reliability

BTW there are free versions of Solaris. I run them here. Solaris can be
free (just not OS)

Huh? What about Sun's OpenSolaris project then?

http://opensolaris.org/os/

It states "The OpenSolaris project is an open source community and a place
for collaboration and conversation around OpenSolaris technology."

-- Paul.


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