Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:49:20 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: mike@NetworX.ie, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Y2K Message-ID: <199811241749.JAA17842@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <8286.911911162@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Nov 24, 98 01:39:22 pm"
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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 -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Core Team, Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--The Power to Serve JMB193 http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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