From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Nov 24 04:41:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA16337 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:41:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA16331 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA08288; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:39:24 +0100 (CET) To: Michael Ryan cc: Garrett Wollman , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Y2K In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:30:07 PST." Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:39:22 +0100 Message-ID: <8286.911911162@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message , 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message