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Re: Why are Sun's y2k patches *NOT* publicly available???

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From: Bill Duncan
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 :-)
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From: bill@nospam.com (Bill Duncan)
Subject: Re: Why are Sun's y2k patches *NOT* publicly available???
Date: 1998/03/02
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