--- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:20:49 -0500 From: "Sims, Charles" <CSims@private> To: declan@private Declan: you circulated today an appalling attack on HP's attempt to protect itself and its customers which analogizes HP to the Nazis and this policy to the Holocaust. "The dialog is beginning. Should we all go quietly into the showers?" Don't attacks like that make you stop and think? Who, with their sanity intact, could compare announcements like Ms. Fiorinna's to the deathcamps? The piece you republished is beyond the pale, and reflects, yet again, the moral pit (not to say confusion) into which too many hackers and their defenders have descended. Do you really want to be republishing this stuff? Charles S. Sims Proskauer Rose LLP 1585 Broadway New York, NY 10036 212.969.3950 (tel.) 212.969.2900 (fax) csims@private --- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:07:59 +0100 Subject: Re: [Politech] HP users cry foul at looming death of the open PC From: Dennis Groenendijk <dgroenen@private> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> Dear Declan, I thought HP's keynote was a really stupid idea, both from a consumer perspective as from HP's perspective. The enjoyable thing about a market economy is that those two are basically the same thing. However some people who might share you're opinion bring rhetoric to bear, which makes it morally impossible to actually hold on to that position. Does this person compare the inability to enjoy a _consumer_ product, in ways you see fit, with the holocaust? I feel an urgent need to support HP. Sincerely, Dennis Groenendijk > From: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> > Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:26:33 -0500 > To: politech@private > Subject: [Politech] HP users cry foul at looming death of the open PC > > The dialog is beginning. Should we all go quietly into the showers? _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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