[SPARCbook] passwd cracking

[Ken Hansen]

I don't consider this to be a flame response, but this has been gone over a
few times before, and there simply is no way around it - for now.

What the man from Tadpole (I assume) was saying is that, they have paying
customers using this software (it is a source of revenue), and when that
source of revenue dries up (everyone moves on to Solaris 8, or Tadpole no
longer supports the platform), they will not choose to give the product away
for free. In other words, it will be made freely available when no one is
willing to pay for it.

This laptop is not part of the "PC Market," and comparisons between the two
are fairly pointless, IMHO. Why not argue that you want cheaper RAM kits -
$1500 for 128 Meg of RAM is too much? Yeah, and what about those battery
prices? Hey, why are the AC adapters so expensive? And of course, don't get
me started on HD prices!

Really, what is the reason you *need* Solaris 7 on your SPARCbook? What
isn't available for Solaris 2.6 that  is only available for Solaris 7?

Ken

(When your Optiplex was built, it was only sold *with* a special Microsoft
license for WinNT/9X, BTW)

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Archimage" <archimage at linux-magic.com>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] passwd cracking


> >   I probably cannot afford the $350 any more than you could. But this
kind
> > of reasoning is getting ridiculous. Why should Tadpole adjust their
> > pricing on something that has not been EOL'd just because you bought an
> > expensive product at a cheap price from what fairly well amounts to a
big
> > garage sale?
> >
> >  -david
>
> <rant>
> No, I bought a cheap, old machine (a nice one, granted) and the vendor
> has packages to let it run the latest OS.  Practically every other
> hardware vendor in the world releases drivers, etc. for their products
> when new versions of an OS comes out.  When a new version of Windows
> comes out, Dell doesn't require that I buy *their* special version of
> Windows to go on my OptiPlex.  They put the drivers on their support
> site.  So does IBM.  So does Compaq.  Tadpole should, too.  They already
> got the big money for this hardware.  Pretty much everyone else
> considers patches and drivers to be a cost of doing business.
> </rant>
>
> Flames silently directed to /dev/null
>
> Archimage
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