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- From: marc@marcal.uucp (Marc Veeneman)
- Subject: Re: Again, trouble with european HP-UX software support
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.124031.8935@marcal.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:40:31 GMT
- References: <1992Jul16.094631.182605@rrz.uni-koeln.de> <28510284@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> <1992Jul20.191232.27289@u.washington.edu>
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- seymour@milton.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour) writes:
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- >In article <28510284@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> robs@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Rob Slotemaker CRC) writes:
- >>Where can you get the list from ? Note there is no difference between
- >>US and European customers. The official HP policy is to provide patches
- >>only to solve an existing problem. Lists of patches will not be provided.
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- >I'm now trying to set up a similar system with HP...
- > trying... VERY trying... whereas DEC has a good tracking system (i call up,
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- We get a CD-ROM here every couple of months with lots of stuff on
- it. Why couldn't HP simply put all the patches on each one?
-
- The only reason I can see constitutes sadism. Customers pay
- large sums of money every month in exchange for the right to
- grovel and beg for repairs to a product they don't even own, but
- have already paid for the right to use.
-
- Something's wrong here and we shouldn't have to look to DEC or
- IBM for leadership. Is THIS the HP WAY?
- --
- Marc
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