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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Y2K
In-Reply-To: <8286.911911162@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Nov 24, 98 01:39:22 pm"
To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:49:20 -0800 (PST)
Cc: mike@NetworX.ie, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 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.

	

	since FreeBSD-2.2.5, there have been a number of bug fixes.
	These are available in FreeBSD-2.2.7 and soon to be 
	released (Nov 30th) FreeBSD-2.2.8.

	Your customer is "entitled" to these bug fixes, is he not?
	When you upgrade to fix those bugs, our Y2K statement
	will apply to the resulting installtion of FreeBSD-2.2.[78]

jmb

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