Re: [cobalt-users] Enough is enough...

["Kevin D" <kdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>


> Let's go back to the beginning. The Cobalt server is sold as an appliance
> for those that know or need to know nothing about Linux.

That's the dream, here's the reality: you can't run a server and not know
what you're doing, and then expect everything to always work every day. If
your appliance is public, no matter who makes it, or what software runs on
it, people are going to try to crack it. Sometimes, they will succeed. Now,
if you want to remain ignorant, go ahead... pay cobalt to fix your system
when you get hacked. In a perfect world there would be no hackers. We don't
live in a perfect world.

> Install a patch not released by Cobalt and see what happens to your server
> and warranty.

They will still support the hardware, just not the software, and rightly so.
If you mess up your OS royally (or if a hacker does), why should it be
cobalt's responsibility? This is no different than the warranty on any other
server product. Nobody covers software if the user will be tampering with
it.

Kevin