[Info-vax] OT: The New Face of HP

[seasoned_geek]

I've been playing with various Linux distros on my desktop, having
abandoned Windows some time ago.  The latest Karmic Koala beta of
Ubuntu was having significant difficulties with getting fax modems to
work.  I was piped up through the various bug reporting levels until I
was sent to an HP employee named Phillipe Vouters who was the package
maintainer for the Intel chipset modems.  I sent the email documenting
where the code didn't compile due to significant changes in the Linux
Headers and was promptly directed to contact HP technical services,
pay them thousands of dollars, then, he would look at it.  This was
done to me because I used my regular email address instead of a gmail
address like nearly everyone else on the list.  I pointed that fact
out to Phillipe who included his HP bosses on this response.

> > > > > > Roland,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I am really trying to stay polite. It is very hard. In short, you
> > > > > > are considering highly valued technical people worse than negroes
> > > > > > who were slaves. Negroes represented a merchant value and they were
> > > > > > fed and sheltered by their owner.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > You insist vulgarly to make me work for entirely free, not singly
> > > > > > willing to contribute to the food and the roof my family every day
> > > > > > needs. Because all the Intel sources I have modified are public,
> > > > > > manage to learn to assist yourself or hire someone skilled enough
> > > > > > to do the job.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I lost too much time with a parasite. Go to hell.

It's nice to see HP is boosting the bottom line by participating in a
bait and switch game of wire fraud and that they are actively
supporting the KKK.

It's quite alright for a volunteer maintainer to say they will add a
request to a list and get to it as time allows...It's even quite
alright for them to say "if you want to jump ahead in the priority
queue you can call this number and spend some money..."  But for a
volunteer package maintainer to demand you pay his corporation money
before he even looks at anything...that's just criminal wirefraud.  It
must be completely sanctioned by HP since he included Denis Ancelin
from HP and they didn't bother to shut down the racial slurs or put a
pretty face on the situation.

Just an FYI.

The "new HP" has a very dark side.