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

[seasoned_geek]

I don't care whether they fix the software or not.  A crime was
committed and a racial slur was issued in a public forum _after_ the
crime was pointed out.  I posted it here so the others from HP who
lurk here to resolve the matter.  Given the racial slur there is only
one correct resolution, the individual must be terminated for cause.
The face the individual copied another at HP and that individual did
not pipe up, means the practice is condoned at the company.

I planned on giving them a week to resolve the issue.  After that time
I have to forward this particular issue to my contacts at the NAACP.
I would also have to forward the bait and switch issue, along with
what information I have about individuals over here in this country
doing billable work on tourist visas to the Justice Department....the
government is currently looking for someone to pick up the tab on the
healthcare package and I believe they would consider such information
as HP's volunteering to pick up the whole tab.

They didn't even try to make this legal by saying "I will add your
issue to the pile of issues and get to it at some convenient point in
the future...if you want to jump ahead in the queue call this number,
spend thousands of dollars, then we will move you to the top of the
pile..."


On Oct 12, 7:11 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> 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.