[cobalt-users] Support, Warranty and Hype

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Derek Serianni wrote:
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> I have heard that you can turn a RAQ3 into a RAQ4 just by
> restoring the RAQ4 software to it.

Bruce Timberlake wrote in various messages:

This is "illegal" and violates the terms of the Sun Cobalt License
Agreement... but, as a purely speculative discussion, it _should_ work
since RaQ3 and RaQ4 use almost identical hardware.

There really isn't much of a "warranty" anymore, now that the concept of
free support has gone away.

Frank Loewe wrote:
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> No problem.
>
> I have a RaQ3i and restored Raq4 Software.

Bruce Timberlake wrote:
Tsk tsk. Violating License Agreements, are we?  :)

Gerald Waugh wrote:
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> RaQ3 and RaQ4 use the same hardware, and are both ix86 based
> (AMD processor) Which makes the restore upgrade possible.

Bruce Timberlake wrote:
If not legal. :)

Bruce.....
It's really heart-warming to see the comments about License Agreements,
when we know the support has changed, to say nothing of the fact
that certain RaQ3/4 "features(bugs)" never have been fixed, and/or
changed to work as advertised.

Thom