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- From: vhalkka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Vesa Halkka)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Stupid Licenses (YUCK!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.231833.14376@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 23:18:33 GMT
- References: <bhayden.724690634@teal> <1992Dec19.023609.26000@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1992Dec22.034142.14471@fsl.noaa.gov> <1992Dec28.002314.21233@news2.cis.umn.edu> <bhayden.725514513@teal> <1992Dec30.130805.28123@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- Maybe this has come out, I have not read every entry, but what
- really annoys me is selling programs with known problems, and
- known patches to them, but without the patches.
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- An example from real life.
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- As our Sun dealer told me when I tried to get the patches:
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- - we give you the patches, if you buy a software maintenance contract.
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- - And we give the program a 3 month guarantee, and give you patches
- to every problem you bump into..
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- - Or you can BUY all known patches to the product you just purchased!!
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- It is an unbundled product, and the patches were not in usual
- sun patch sites, but I found them after some searching from
- anonymous ftp sites.
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- The patch collection was 1.6 Megabytes, and the README file listed
- *really many* bugs.
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- Vesa Halkka -O___/
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