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Article #875Re: Why are Sun's y2k patches *NOT* publicly available???
From: Bill Duncan
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:00
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In article <l5wwedyv3y.fsf@onshore.com>, Craig Brozefsky <craig@onshore.com> wrote: >Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com> writes: > >> To play Devil's Advocate, if patches are so important to you, perhaps you >> need to find a way to afford the service contracts. Compare the cost >> of not being Y2K-compliant to the cost of the service contract. > >You pay for the OS, not for a protection racket. I believe some other >company, Symantec maybe, had a lawsuit brought against them for >charging for Y2K patches to a product. I wouldn't rule out a huge >class action suit against Sun if they try and do the same. > > >I know your playing devil's advocate tho. 8^) If you put on your conspiracy cap, you can wonder who might have intentionally designed their product to break at Y2K :-) Just kidding, but somebody must have at least considered it :-) -- Any comments or statements made are not necessarily those of Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries, or affiliates. -- Bill Duncan bill@nospam
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6653,eed8b29fd4fd9b52 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6653,public X-Google-Thread: 1070f0,eed8b29fd4fd9b52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1070f0,public X-Google-Thread: f88e1,eed8b29fd4fd9b52 X-Google-Attributes: gidf88e1,public X-Google-Thread: 10d053,eed8b29fd4fd9b52 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d053,public From: bill@nospam.com (Bill Duncan) Subject: Re: Why are Sun's y2k patches *NOT* publicly available??? Date: 1998/03/02 Message-ID: <6des46$c2t$1@news-srv1.fmr.com> X-Deja-AN: 330078811 References: <6dchtn$319$1@lios.apana.org.au> <GstK.3$hY3.37352@cam-news-reader1.bbnplanet.com> <l5wwedyv3y.fsf@onshore.com> Organization: Fidelity Investments Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,aus.computers.sun,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc