[Info-vax] Apparent OpenVMS Documentation URL on HPE.COM

[Dave Froble]

On 12/2/2018 7:28 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-12-01, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Now many large companies, including HP and HPE, have their own cloud
>> technology which makes storage really inexpensive. So I am still wondering
>> HP/HPE is deleting stuff.
>>
>
> Sometimes people are just prats. Here's an announcement about
> removing old XPI style extensions from AMO. Read the comments
> for what people think about this (including a BS comment from
> Mozilla that they can't keep 100 GB of add-ons online):
>
> https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/08/21/timeline-for-disabling-legacy-firefox-add-ons/
>
> The real reason appears to be that Mozilla want to make it
> harder and harder for people to continue using the last
> fully functional versions of Firefox. (And yes, I know about
> the security issues involved in doing that.)
>
> What I can tell you is that the current ESR version of Firefox
> which I am now forced to use is horrible and I don't like it
> one bit.
>
> I don't know if HPE are thinking in this way, but sometimes
> people just want to be associated with changing things just
> for the sake of change and they don't care what damage they
> do along the way. I really hope the HPE website maintainers
> are not currently thinking in this way.
>
> Simon.
>

Perhaps look at politicians.  To a politician, the next election isn't 
everything, it's the ONLY thing.  Perhaps the ONLY thing HPE is 
interested in is the next item they can sell you?

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