[rescue] Oracle and Sun BIOS updates. (vent)

[Mark Benson]

Larry Ellison: F*** Him (tm)

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On 29 Jun 2010, at 15:38, Barry Callahan <barryc at rjlsystems.com> wrote:

> You know, I could understand Sun wanting you to have a paid service contract
to be able to download the Solaris patch clusters. They provided updates not
just for the kernel and other core  parts of the operating system but all
software that was distributed on the OS install media. Although, I grumbled
about their decision to charge for access to the updates when you could
download the install media for free.
>
> Now, we're no longer using Solaris, but we've got a few Sun Ultra 24s in
service running linux that I'd like to install the latest BIOS revision on.
Before getting bought by Oracle, you didn't have to have a paid service
contract to get access to BIOS and firmware updates. Guess what? Now that
Oracle owns them, now you do.
>
> Argh.
>
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