HP Forum Archive 08

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Is this the HP of old? (I don't think so) Message #1 Posted by Steve (Australia) on 31 July 2002, 6:19 a.m. Imagine what would hapen if we discovered synthetic programming today! http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947325.html

Re: Is this the HP of old? (I don't think so) Message #2 Posted by W. Bruce Maguire II on 31 July 2002, 1:25 p.m., in response to message #1 by Steve (Australia) One word: PATHETIC! Bruce.

(additional URL) Re: Is this the HP of old? (I don't think so) Message #3 Posted by Christof (Davis, CA) on 1 Aug 2002, 1:52 a.m., in response to message #2 by W. Bruce Maguire II http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hp.dmca.threat.073002.html I just popped into the forum to post this url. the letter itself. I am, honestly, speechless. I'm seriously considering boycotting anything post Carly. (not fair to tar my 28s or 42s , or even my 320lx notetaking machine with that brush) HP started out as a hacker* company- that was the point and the drive of the era. People pushed limits, discovered flaws, made bugfixes, and used HP kit to do everything from build a bridge, to design a logic board, to (potentially) navigate spacecraft! Now? money. I hear accusations of science destroying our sense of wonder, but is it *science*, or the corporate ownership of it? -Christof (* not that this needs to be explained here, but hacker doesn't mean media driven security cracker. MIT has some great hack pages, if you care to see)

Re: Is this the HP of old? (I don't think so) Message #4 Posted by Tom (UK) on 1 Aug 2002, 7:59 a.m., in response to message #1 by Steve (Australia) In doing this HP appear to be trying (not very well) to protect their name and market position / profits. They do not seem too interested in protecting their customers by fixing the bug in the HP software (the artical does say HP were warned some time ago by the same group). Oh well another Carly triumph... Do I take it that using a similar argument HP could produce totaly inadequate software, full of bugs and loop-holes and then sue anyone who pointed this out? A clear case of emperor's clothes^. ^ Childrens story about an emperor who asked for some new clothes to be made. The tailors made the clothes out of nothing, the royal court and adults were too afraid to point this out to the stupid ruler. It was only when he paraded down the street naked that a child shouted out he had no clothes on at all - everybody then fell about laughing at the stupid ruler.

Re: Is this the HP of old? (maybe so) Message #5 Posted by Steve (Australia) on 5 Aug 2002, 2:33 a.m., in response to message #1 by Steve (Australia) It seems that someone has had a word in someone's ear http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26508.html

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