From: ABlainey@aol.com
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 14:22:20 MDT
In a message dated Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:50:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, charleshixsn@earthlink.net writes:
> Yeah. HP and Compaq are the same company now, whichever name you use.
> They are currently claiming that their lawyer did it too them, and that
> they won't prosecute this time. But they already got the company to not
> post the security information, and they didn't say anything about next
> time. I'm not impressed at their attempt at a PR job, and
> if it's
> anything more, I find it quite unimpressive also.
Agreed, they have done a very bad PR job on this. Its outragous that the situation was allowed to escalate to then extent that it did.
Interestingly in a related matter. Sun microsystems runs a website dedicated to poking fun and pointing out flaws with IBM. Its not an extensive attack on IBM, but it is interesting that IBM havent taken the matter to court (that I know of).
For those interested the url is http://www.bigbluesmoke.com
If you check the WHOIS database you will see that the site is indeed owned by Sun and has several links back to the main Sun website.
Personally I'm all for bashing companies that deliver crappy products. Who isn't ?
Alex
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