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

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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)

As far as I can tell, Sun didn't buy the RaQ3 or agree to support it
since it wasn't being made or supported by Cobalt anymore when Sun
bought Cobalt. 


> 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.
> 

You have the option, it's just that option is up to you to carry out on
older boxes. You can upgrade PHP, Apache, Perl, anything you want.
-- 
Dan Kriwitsky

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