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- Path: sparky!uunet!pacsoft!mike
- From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Single-user mode boot on SCO UNIX - not a solution
- Message-ID: <1367@pacsoft.com>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 06:50:29 GMT
- References: <syscrc.714768938@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> <1992Aug25.195455.1065@ksvltd.fi> <1992Aug25.213945.9844@kithrup.COM>
- Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, Ca.
- Lines: 29
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- In an article, sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
-
- [ about SCO charging an end-user because they forgot their root password ]
-
- >Clue number two: SCO charges for it for one of a couple of reasons. First
- >is that they want to make sure it's not some random person trying to break
- >into the machine. Second is that they may have to make up a floppy (or pair
- >of floppies) and it costs money to do that, as well as to send it.
-
- [ As I climb up on my soapbox ... ]
-
- This is bogus. SCO could absolutely care less about "some random person
- trying to break into the machine". They charge $100 because they know that
- the poor end user is over a barrel, and they can get away with it. And
- as long as that person had the original installation disks, SCO would not
- have to send anything in the mail. In this particular case, the user
- obviously has the install floppies (the whole point is that he wants to avoid
- a re-install if possible) ... it would have taken all of about 15 minutes
- (if that) to walk him through what needed to be done. IMHO, there is no
- difference between SCO charging this poor fellow $100 to get into his system
- and someone selling ice for $60 a bag in southern Florida. Oh, and the
- argument that he "got himself into this mess" doesn't wash -- the issue is
- service to the customer -- not assigning blame.
-
- [ Whew, I feel better now! ]
-
- --
- Mike Stefanik mike@pacsoft.com ...!uunet!pacsoft!mike
- Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
-