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- From: Zoid@mindlink.bc.ca (Dave Kirsch)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR$ (and Dell hardware) total lack of success on P
- Message-ID: <13648@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 00:07:15 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Distribution: world
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- In message <1992Jul22.165655.5996@druid.uucp>, darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M.
- Cain) writes:
- > gram@aim1.aztec.co.za (Graham Wheeler) writes:
- > >donn@dellunix.dell.com (Donn Baumgartner) writes:
- > >>Bull. Dell neither makes nor sells the HP LJII (with Postscript+
- > cartridge),
- > >This guy must be a plant working for SCO or someone. I can't believe Dell
- > >are paying him to alienate the net. Perhaps its time to sell your Dell
- > stock,
- > >folks ;-) - with Donn effectively running Dell's net.PR, I don't see a very
- > >bright future for them...
- > >Aztec Information Management/UCT | Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching Ch. 78
- >
- > Is that your opinion or Aztec's. Perhaps you shouldn't post until you
- > understand that people speak for themselves here. Aztec may not appreciate
- > you running their net PR otherwise.
- >
- > That was sarcasm in case you couldn't figure that out.
-
- But in another message, Donn said:
-
- > ... your complaint is unjustified. We're familiar with your problem - even
- > in development we've heard your whining, ... IT'S NOT DELL'S PROBLEM that
- > someone else's printer and cable doesn't work with our machinetware. We have
- > no obligation or commitment to make your particular (and peculiar) setup work
-
- Now, I see a lot of 'we' there. When I see a person posting from a company and
- using the term 'we' to refer to the company, I think it's safe to assume he's
- speaking _for_ the company. If he said, "Dell has no obligation" rather than
- 'we', then it can be viewed differently.
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