Unruh wrote: > Joseph Gwinn <[email protected]> writes: > >> In article <[email protected]>, >> "Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> The suspicion is that we have not set something up correctly, not that >>>> NTP v3 has failed, or that NTP v4 would fare better or worse. Don't >>>> understand the comment about funding. >>>> >>> Simple enough. The people who maintain NTPD have to earn a living >>> somehow. The more unpaid time they volunteer the more difficult it >>> becomes to pay the bills! > >> Open Source is doomed? Bill's prayers are answered at last. > > Yup, if by doomed you mean that open source stops supporting old versions > long after new versions are released. It is doomed. Oh wait, I just tried > to get support from Microsoft for my Windows 3 installation and they > refused. Microsoft is doomed. > > > >>> Version 3 is AT LEAST six years old. > >> So is the OS version being used: 2009-2002= 7 years. So, they're >> siblings. > > And how much support do you get from Sun for the operating system? > None at all. I don't pay for it! If I were the system administrator for a commercial system supporting a business, I would be paying Sun for some level of support. As a retired System Administrator and a hobbyist, I can't afford it. Don't really need it either. My systems work.
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