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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

seasoned_geek wrote:
> Oddly enough, you would be incorrect.  As best as I can piece it
> together, here was the very beginning.  He had an odd way of embedding
> answers within the message which makes it difficult to follow in here.
> 
> The solid line of *********** divides emails.  As you can see, after
> determining that even the "new" package didn't compile it went
> straight into bait and switch.
> 


[snipped email history...]


 > As you can see, after determining that even the "new"
 > package didn't compile...

And so what ? It was free, wasn't it ? Anyone can publish
any code without any requirement that it should "compile".

 > ...it went straight into bait and switch.

No, he decided he wasn't going to spend more free time
on it. That's up to him. You can either take the code
and fix the problems yourself, or pay HP to get it fixed
for it. Seems just fair and "as usual" in the open source
world.

And as you wrote yourself :

 > Faxing may be archaic, but there are still
 > some business situations where you have to.

Right.
And those "business situations" can pay for the service
they need.