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On 2 Mar 1998 07:54:15 +1100, cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (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.
>
>Can someone from Sun justify making these patches available only to contract
>maintenance customers, when there is a significant proportion of clients,
>customers, administrators, users, etc. who can't afford maintenance
>contracts (such as myself) for the machines they are responsible for, and
>therefore will be left with systems that aren't completely y2k complient
>unless the y2k patches are made available to everyone.

Probably because they know you can live without most support, and if some other
patches were only available on support contracts, you might give them a miss.
But they know you can't live without y2k patches so you'll have to go back on
support to get them.  In other words, the same reasoning used by the banks and
cable-TV companies.

andrew
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