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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Oct 24, 8:39 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>>> I am a distant observer on this. Shouldn't the volunteer have had a
>>> similar response "please go through the mailing list to report problems"
>>> instead of saying "please buy services from HP if you want me to look at
>>> it" ?
>> And of course, everyone is ignoring the fact that English isn't
>> his native language and that may resulted in his saying something
>> in a form that others might find abrasive.  I find the original
>> posters tone to be very abrasive and might have reacted the same
>> way although it is mnost likely that I would have just stopped
>> responding to him at all.
>>
> 
> If one finds the simple reporting of a compilation error, then I guess
> it is pretty apparent one doesn't work in the real world of software
> development.  The "original tone" simply reported the error, then it
> was met with "you must spend thousands of dollars with HP to get
> _volunteer_ package maintainer services" when there was no request to
> have anything fixed immediately.  The entire situation resulted from
> the bubbling up of a compilation error report.
> 
> There is no excuse for racial slurs coming in email from someone
> claiming to represent a U.S. based global company.
> 
> We shall see how HP chooses to deal with this publicly.  It is not
> going to "simply go away".
> 
> 

I have already forgotten it!  Get a life!!