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From: jimp on 10 Feb 2010 12:41 Has anyone else noticed that a lot of patches that used to be public are now contract only? Could this be part of a plan by Oracle to prod people into paying for support contracts? -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply.
From: John D Groenveld on 10 Feb 2010 13:23 In article <kn7b47-3ac.ln1(a)mail.specsol.com>, <jimp(a)specsol.spam.sux.com> wrote: >Has anyone else noticed that a lot of patches that used to be public are >now contract only? I have not noticed, but which patch IDs are you having trouble fetching? John groenveld(a)acm.org
From: Chris Ridd on 10 Feb 2010 13:29 On 2010-02-10 18:23:35 +0000, John D Groenveld said: > In article <kn7b47-3ac.ln1(a)mail.specsol.com>, > <jimp(a)specsol.spam.sux.com> wrote: >> Has anyone else noticed that a lot of patches that used to be public are >> now contract only? > > I have not noticed, but which patch IDs are you having trouble > fetching? The recommended patch clusters for Solaris 10 x86 were not publicly accessible when I looked a week or so back. -- Chris
From: Tim Bradshaw on 10 Feb 2010 13:40 On 2010-02-10 17:41:40 +0000, jimp(a)specsol.spam.sux.com said: > Has anyone else noticed that a lot of patches that used to be public are > now contract only? There were changes to patch availability some time ago, which were mostly enforcing rules which were not previously being enforced. In some cases I think things are still available without a contract *but* you now need a sunsolve login (or whatever it is called now) to get them. I don't think it's unreasonable for Sun/Oracle to try and make money from support for the software they give away for free, actually. That kind of is the OSS business model isn't it (when it's not "Collect underpants", "?", "Profit")?
From: John D Groenveld on 10 Feb 2010 13:55
In article <7tgc7lFa2nU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >The recommended patch clusters for Solaris 10 x86 were not publicly >accessible when I looked a week or so back. My Sun Online Account is bound to contracts so I can't test, but the last time someone here complained they were able to get those patches if not the tarball with Martin Paul's PCA. <URL:http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/> John groenveld(a)acm.org |