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Article #869Re: Why are Sun's y2k patches *NOT* publicly available???
From: Dr Peter Miller
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 00:00
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Craig Dewick wrote: > I've just visited the Sunsolve site to retrieve the latest public > patch kit for Solaris 2.5.1, and I'm quite aghast to find that the y2k > patches for Solaris 2.3 up to 2.5.1, and SunOS 4.1.x, are *NOT* > publicly availlable. I agree with you completely, Craig. I felt exactly the same when I saw this at SunSolve. Products which are not Y2000-compliant were written either by lazy or short-sighted programmers, or to pander to lazy users who couldn't be bothered to type four digits. These are nothing more or less than BUGS, and despite all the effort it must have taken to fix them, it is laughable of Sun to dress up the patches as a commercial product. We should be grateful to Sun for stopping their computers from breaking, but not THAT grateful. Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Peter Miller, Remote Sensing Group, Phone: +44 (0)1752 633151 Plymouth Marine Laboratory, E-mail: P.Miller@pml.ac.uk Prospect Place, Plymouth PL1 3DH, UK Web site: www.npm.ac.uk/rsdas/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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