Re: [cobalt-users] I have the dumb question of the day/week/year

["Dave Thurman (Mailing List Email)" <listonly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 10/20/02 9:01 AM, Dan Kriwitsky stated:

>> On other distros and other Mac, Window systems even Linux you
>> can upgrade by purchasing a new disk, or doing a special
>> call, Debian for example will do apt-get -fuy dist-upgrade
>> and you have the latest OS and are humming right along.
>> 
>> Why in the world are we expected to stay at a Raq3 level when
>> we are now at Raq550 level.
> 
> Because you bought a RaQ3? Sun didn't make the RaQ3? It was never sold
> by Sun? I own a mid-1990's Volvo. Why can't I get the latest Volvo for
> free?
>
Dan, I somewhat agree with your post. Thing is, just like the Mac's and
Windows OS's you have the option to upgrade your OS if you want. You may
have to pay $$ but you have an option to update. Sun made the choice to buy
Cobalt. With that should come accountability and responsibility. I adopt a
kid, our a dog and I have to accept all the baggage it came with and provide
for it from that point forward. (bad analogy but hey it's Sunday morning)

I was cruising the Debian list and they has discussed upgrades of the distro
and it struck a nerve with me. We also just upgraded all our Mac's here to
OS X Jaguar and we have older Mac's that we did the update to. Just seems as
Sun/Cobalt users that we should have the option to update our boxes to the
latest OS, even if we have to pay $$ to do it. Locking us down to a box name
and OS seems short sited.


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