Re: SCO Technical Articles to say "tata".

From: Barry (bgraetz_at_bigpond.net.au)
Date: 05/29/03 

Date: 28 May 2003 19:51:20 -0700

tony@aplawrence.com wrote in message news:<bb3aha$nn0$1@pcls4.std.com>...
> In comp.unix.sco.misc Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> wrote:
> : Users of this newsgroup have frequently been referred to one of the SCO
> : Technical Articles at http://stage.sco.com/ta.
>
> : In about three weeks general access to the Technical Articles will be
> : shut off. Instead of being able to read any of the existing 10,000+
> : TAs, you will be referred to the "Installation Knowledge Center".
> : There you will have access ~solely~ to a subset of TAs relevant to
> : "installation, basic product configuration, security and supplement
> : letters for SCO products".
>
> : A recent thread here concerned escape sequences to change colors, and a
> : change that occured for 'scoansi' as of OSR 5.0.6. This is TA 114842.
> : Since it's not deemed an "installation" or "configuration" issue, the
> : Installation Knowledge Center won't show it to you.
>
> : Another one you won't see: "Configuring MMDF in a TCP/IP environment
> : under SCO UNIX System V/386", which is TA 107199.
>
> : Enter "visionfs" in the new search engine, you'll retrieve 9 articles.
> : Try that at http://stage.sco.com/ta and get a list of 60 articles.
>
> : Some people ~will~ have access to ~all~ of the TAs. I'm one of them.
>
> : SCO tells me I should be happy, because now I can start charging people
> : for my privileged access to 10,095 TA's.
>
> : Why I am not jumping up and down about this?
>
> : Do I hear a hue, a cry, or both?
>
> Well, you already know what I said to them: it's dumb, dumb, dumb. Yes, short
> term it will put more money in my pocket because I can access the blocked
> articles, but long term it just does more damage to a company that has
> blundered its way to near oblivion.
>
> That kind of model makes sense if you are giving away your product or
> charging very little for it. I'd have no objection if that were the
> case. But SCO Unix is still a good pile of cash, so playing games
> with the ta database is stupid.

This is just another nail in the coffin for SCO....

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