After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> __/ [ Linonut ] on Saturday 10 March 2007 04:51 \__
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>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Jerry McBride belched out this bit o' wisdom:
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>> Or they may simply ask themselves, "How many boxes does 'patch Tuesday'
>> sell?"
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> It's no joke. They have begun charging for patches....
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> | For users running that software, Microsoft charges $4,000 per product
> | for DST fixes.
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> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129550-c,industrynews/article.html
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> I refer you back to the quote in the OP. That's why vendor dependecies are
> nasty. You let yourself be abused.
I saw some time-related patches going by when I did a world-update on my
Debian box.
But now I'm having to restart the ntp daemon manually (well, for now it
is in my .xsession file) after I log in.
I'm not sure what is up with that!
Anyway, from the article you reference:
The $4,000 fee is a dramatic price cut from the $40,000-per-product
charge that Microsoft set in 2006. "We believe we had to do the right
thing for our customers, so we did something on the fee," explained
Sweatt. "There is a cost involved in producing this, but we're not
making money on [the $4,000]. It recovers just a part of the cost of
development and providing support."
Didn't Bill "bit-rot" Gates once claim that nobody ever bought a
product for bug fixes?
And people wonder why some despise Microsoft, the company.
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"Take her in for regrooving." -- The Firesign Theatre
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