Re: [cobalt-security] SUN don't care about security update ?

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 06:29:38 +0100
> From: cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxx

> I'm very disapointed for the sun attitude about security
> upgrade of the cobalt.  When there is important holes (like in
> PHP these days), they MUST provide upgrade in the hours like
> all Linux, *BSD, Unix system have do. If you install unoficial
> packages, you can loose warranty, and if I have choosed the
> cobalt is to have a minimum administration: warning from sun on
> security issue, and a link to a package that correct the
> problem.

IANAL, but I should think Cobalt would have to prove that you
screwed up your system to void the warranty... it would be an
interesting court case to hear a company claim that the warranty
was void because someone manually fixed something that the vendor
negligently failed to.

I don't know.  I wish I could figure out what Sun/Cobalt is
doing.  I'd have thought that they'd put US/IIi or US/IIe chips
in a new release of RaQ... if Cobalt could move MIPS chips,
surely Sun/Cobalt could move some UltraSPARCs.

Think Netra/T1 with GUI admin -- sans proprietary, expensive,
goofy memory boards.


Eddy

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