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

[David J Dachtera]

seasoned_geek wrote:
> 
> 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.

Hhhmmm... Seems very much like the old DEC.

Once had an e-mail exchange via DSNlink with some folks who were
similarly irritated by my insistence that DEC fulfill is contractual
obligations rather than demand further graft payments. I was told that
they were "not taking the bait".

I wrote back, "No 'bait' intended - how 'bout you?"

Needles to say, no response.

D.J.D.