Criticisms of "HP and death of open PC" Politech post

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:20:49 -0500
From: "Sims, Charles" <CSims () proskauer com>
To: declan () well com

Declan:  you circulated today an appalling attack on HP's attempt to
protect itself and its customers which analogizes HP to the Nazis and
this policy to the Holocaust.  "The dialog is beginning.  Should we all
go quietly into the showers?"  Don't attacks like that make you stop and
think?  

Who, with their sanity intact, could compare announcements like Ms.
Fiorinna's to the deathcamps?  The piece you republished is beyond the
pale, and reflects, yet again, the moral pit (not to say confusion) into
which too many hackers and their defenders have descended.  Do you
really want to be republishing this stuff?

Charles S. Sims
Proskauer Rose LLP
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
212.969.3950 (tel.)
212.969.2900 (fax)
csims () proskauer com

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:07:59 +0100
Subject: Re: [Politech] HP users cry foul at looming death of the open PC
From: Dennis Groenendijk <dgroenen () xs4all nl>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>

Dear Declan,

I thought HP's keynote was a really stupid idea, both from a consumer
perspective as from HP's perspective. The enjoyable thing about a market
economy is that those two are basically the same thing.

However some people who might share you're opinion bring rhetoric to bear,
which makes it morally impossible to actually hold on to that position.
Does this person compare the inability to enjoy a _consumer_ product, in
ways you see fit, with the holocaust?

I feel an urgent need to support HP.

Sincerely,
Dennis Groenendijk

> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:26:33 -0500
> To: politech () politechbot com
> Subject: [Politech] HP users cry foul at looming death of the open PC
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> The dialog is beginning.  Should we all go quietly into the showers?

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