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

[seasoned_geek]

On Oct 17, 12:22 am, "Carlos Marcano (chuckman78)"
<c.marc... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mr. Roland.:
>
> You are showing yourself as a very angry, bitter man. Mr. Phillipe
> Vouters has been doing a GREAT service to the Linux community a long
> time ago. With his UNINTERESTED help lots of people are, today, able
> to connect to the internet using Linux and a 536/537 Intel chipset
> modem. Without his contributions, the google group for Ubuntu binary
> driver packages of the mentioned modems would not exist. I believe you
> have taken too personal any of the statements attrbiuited to Mr.
> Vouters and in the long run you will be proven as WRONG. Please, take
> a deep breathe, relax and calmly re-read all the material, I bet you
> will be surprised by what you will think then on. You have been tried
> to get into reason previously in the linmodems.org mailing list, which
> is a very authorized source in the so called Linmodems world,
> regarding your impasse with Mr. Vouter but nevertheless you just want
> to escalate things up. I believe that mailing list is the number one
> authority in setting up software modems in Linux and I believe they
> back up Mr. Vouters 100%. That is a bold sign of where the truth is
> ( I don't like to use such a heavy word but my limitations in english
> writting -it is not my first language- make me use it).
>

I'm neither angry nor bitter and have already been proven correct, at
least in HPs eyes.  Hopefully they will post their response publicly
here once their lawyers have time to vet it.

I will not stop you from believing what you wish, but I can tell you
that only a token few in the Linmodems list are willing to aid an
attempted criminal act.  The rest of the list realizes that a bait &
switch is illegal in a lot of countries and at the very least, an
attempt to hold hostage or extort a volunteer effort in an attempt to
get back on a company payroll is highly unethical.

Has there been stuff provided in the past, yes?  Does that excuse the
criminal activity and the racial slur?  No.

Will there be some in the world who mistakenly think a volunteer can
directly extort funds if they have provided even one thing free to a
community?  Yes.  They would be incorrect, but that doesn't mean they
won't believe it.  Would you find one or two such people on the
Linmodems list?  Definitely.  They don't care if multiple crimes have
been committed as long as something at some point was offered up for
free and there is the faint hope that once the extortion is complete
that same fix might be offered up to others.  In my and many other
countries that belief and activities to support such a belief
classifies the individual as an Accessory to the crime or crimes.

Once again, when you are registered as a package maintainer, you only
have a limited number of responses when a "does not compile" bug has
been verified:

a) [ ] I will get to it when I can.
b) [ ] I can't get to it for a long time - why don't you take a stab
at it?
c) [ ] If either a) or b) don't work for you, consider finding
somebody else
who can help you with this problem.
d) [] if you really want me to drop everything and fix your problem
now, you have to contact this other paid service, otherwise expect it
to be fixed via option a).

HP now has a very serious blemish to deal with.  They do need to
_publicly_ resolve the issue.  They also need to figure out a way of
stopping this from happening again, not just with Philipe, but with
any other package maintainer they have cut loose from the payroll.