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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

David J Dachtera wrote:
> 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.

If a company fails to honor its contractual obligations, your remedy is 
in the courts rather than usenet!

Before paying a lawyer, you might just try to read and understand all 
the fine print in the contract in question!  It might be cheaper than 
paying a lawyer.