[rescue] Oracle making just a little harder to keep old machines in use

[weirdshanghai at bbchina.info]

That's utterly nuts. Ok suns life is at an end.



On 5 May 2010, at 15:50, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net> wrote:

> On 05/05/10 10:41, Brian Wheeler wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 09:39 -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:33:09AM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>>>>
http://techbert.tumblr.com/post/569726833/sun-oracle-removed-public-firmware-
downloads
>>>> Oracle removed public firmware downloads
>>>
>>> <oracle> SHOW ME TEH MONEYZ
>>
>> <me> NO.  KTHXBAI
>> <me> OH HAI IBM!
>>
>> Seriously, though, what are they trying to accomplish besides irritating
>> users?
>
> Driving away the remaining Sun customers, apparently...?
>
>
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