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

[seasoned_geek]

On Oct 17, 7:21 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> > I've no idea what that has to do with someone getting tired
> > of some user yelling for support on free/open source software.
>
> If a HP employee used to provide an HP-approved service to the open
> source community, and the employee was unceremoniously let go, and the
> replacement employee in some distant continent was not given the
> responsability to continue the open source support, then the original
> employee has reasons to point fingers to HP and might be mad at the fact
> that HP has abandonned a responsability it had agreed to take on.

I would add after "responsability" or lacked any and all required
skills

>
> And if the person against whome there seems to be a complaint is no
> longer an HP employee, then HP has no reason to get involved and respond.
>

In this case, publicly claimed to still be employed by HP.  The
company has to respond if for no other reason than to make the
employment status public.