dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:06:15 -0500 > Kyle McDonald <KMcDonald at egenera.com> wrote: > >> That said, I can see how frustrating it would be to actually stumble >> onto one of those problems, and not be able to get the patch (until >> it has been field tested more and actually makes it's way into the >> recommended cluster) at all. > > You're right about you Microsoft story I guess. I can't be sure to get > all patches (although they like me to believe I do;-) > > But I would pay for a patch-only contract though in cases as mentioned > above. The way it is now, all you get are the security patches (and > -SOME- recommended ones, mostly because they are deps in a way). I feel > patches should be available to an Operating System. Even if the OS > itself is free. But to a reasonable price. > > Just my 2 ?t
this is a business issue - and a Solaris 10 one, at that. I'm not arguing about the validity of your claim, but I'm fairly certain there are better places to address this to than here ;-) (and, even if I work for Sun, I can't tell you what they are without some research. I'd start with www.sun.com ...) regards Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
