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- From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR$ (and Dell hardware) total lack of success on Postscript
- Message-ID: <PCG.92Jul24195714@aberdb.aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 19:57:14 GMT
- References: <z5-mfvq@dixie.com> <1992Jul18.002830.9207@dellunix.dell.com>
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- Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
- Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru
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- In-Reply-To: esr@snark.thyrsus.com's message of 21 Jul 92 15: 35:25 GMT
- Nntp-Posting-Host: aberdb
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- On 21 Jul 92 15:35:25 GMT, esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) said:
-
- > IT'S NOT DELL'S PROBLEM that someone else's printer and cable
- > doesn't work with our machine/software. We have no obligation or
- > commitment to make your particular (and peculiar) setup work [...] I
- > *personally* wish you would find out what Compaq is selling these
- > days.
-
- esr> There's nothing new about the policy, but popping off at a paying
- esr> customer like that indicates arrogance and a poor attitude.
-
- The customer in question IS NOT a paying customer. He did not pay for
- systems integration consultancy, he paid for a software license. I don't
- see any popping off or arrogance in the above quote I only see an
- attempt at reminding a particularly obnoxious customer that he is trying
- to blackmail Dell into providing him with a free lunch, and that is not
- nice.
-
- Systems integration/compatibility assurance is a very difficult and
- expensive task, and the seller of a system component has no obligation
- to undertake to do it for any arbitrary unsupported system configuration.
-
- Dell in particular make it very clear that unless the customer buys a
- complete system integrated by them they do not take responsibility for
- system integration problems. They do not even represent that the Unix
- they sell will work *at all* with any non Dell hardware. All expense of
- system integration rests with the purchaser of their Unix product.
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