Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:39:22 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Michael Ryan <mike@NetworX.ie> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Y2K Message-ID: <8286.911911162@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:30:07 PST." <ECS9811241107C@NetworX.ie>
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In message <ECS9811241107C@NetworX.ie>, Michael Ryan writes:
>I'm a consultant and charge my customer by the
>hour. Surely he's entitled to know whether the FreeBSD 2.2.5R he
>has in production is Y2K compliant or not instead of being forced
>to shell out a large amount of money for an upgrade, as would be
>warranted by acceptance of the above policy position?
1. The upgrade itself would be equally costly if he used a paid for
UNIX version, and he would have to pay for the new release on
top of that, so FreeBSD is cheaper, right ?
2. Any use of the concept "entitled to" in the context of free
software is sloppy thinking or at least sloppy analysis of the
relationship.
3. Who will pay for the time >we< spend trying to comprehensively
answer the y2k question, when nobody pays for the software in
the first place ?
4. An upgrade from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 (or soon 2.2.8) can be done a
hole lot faster than a week, if the installation is documented
in the first place.
--
Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal
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