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

["Roy A. Urick" <roy.urick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you notice the agreement, the cobalt disks are licensed for a SPECIFIC
use. To paraphrase paragraph 2 (or maybe 3)  of the license displayed during
the use of a restore disk " the purpose of the disk is for the express
purpose of restoring a system to the ORIGINAL state as shipped from the
factory." Note that the software isnt allowed to be installed on ANY other
box, cobalt or not.  Therefore, installing raq4 software on a Raq3 is
against the license since the 3 didnt ship from the factory with 4 software.


Now it MIGHT be legal if you buy the RAQ4 training kit ($700ish) and use the
os they provide for training, but I am SURE there is something in the
license that prevents using it for anything OTHER than training.

----- 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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