] "We're hoping that people may be happy to download this
] commercial version of Solaris and basically use it at no
] charge to convince themselves that it's as cool as they
] think it is," said Mark McLain, vice president for
] software marketing at Sun.

Solaris is not cool.

More to the point, this proves just how badly Sun misunderstands
open-source and free software. Free as in freedom, not beer.
Free software isn't great because I don't have to pay money to
receive a copy of it. Its great because I'm not beholden to some company who wants to lock me into their propriatery system and then fuck me as hard as they can.

Sun stares down Red Hat with Solaris 10