Re: [cobalt-users] Support, Warranty and Hype

["Derek Schwab" <derek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It illegal if you don't own a license for it thought.  Sure, you can buy a
Dell machine and install windows 200 or whatever you want on it.  But, if
you don't pay for a license, it's illegal.
    -Derek
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Thurman" <dthurman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Support, Warranty and Hype


> on 1-2-02 8:41 AM, baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx at
> baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx was reported to have made a statement that
said
> this:
>
> Why would it be "Illegal" to place Taq4 OS on a Cobalt box of any type. I
> would like to see the paragraph from Sun/Cobalt that states you are in
> violation. If what Bruce says is correct, why then do people like Apple
and
> dell and the others allow you to place OS's of your choice on machines??
> I am cornfused...
>
> > Derek Serianni wrote:
> >>
> >> 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:
> >>
> >> No problem.
> >>
> >> I have a RaQ3i and restored Raq4 Software.
> >
> > Bruce Timberlake wrote:
> > Tsk tsk. Violating License Agreements, are we?  :)
> >
> > Gerald Waugh wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
> >
> >
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