The new DST rules also provide an opportunity for operating system vendors, like Microsoft and Sun, to require exorbitant amounts of money to provide a patch for older operating systems.
I don't know about Microsoft, because as well as a patch for purchase they also provided registry entries for Windows 2000. Sun, however, wanted an existing service contract or the purchase of one for $10k per machine to provide a patch for anything older than Solaris 8.
It so happens that I have a box running Solaris 7 providing secondary MX and NS. When the woman at Sun quoted me $10k per server, I told her that my machine is a 40MHz SparcStation IPX, and if I had $10k laying around I would have bought a Netra or something.
Fortunately, the base of most Unix DST rules is freeware, and it was a simple matter of compiling and testing. Wham! Solaris 7 now StupidUSA-DST compliant.
[EDIT: A Netra or more Amiga kit!! :crazy: ]