[Info-vax] Looks like HP has been stepping in the doo-doo again

[Michael Kraemer]

Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:

> 
> It might matter to some!  Historically, a Guild was an association of 
> craftsmen and concerned itself with maintaining standards for quality.

That's the polite version.
The realistic version is that a guild's purpose was to keep the
number of craftsmen limited, thereby achieving maximum income
for the individual members.

> A union was/is an organization of manufacturing and/or service workers 
> and is concerned with extorting the maximum pay for the minimum work.

And? Is there something wrong with it?
Their counterpart, employers and stockholders, are trying to
squeeze the maximum profit out of their workers, for minimum pay.