On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 17:59, Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
So when you pay money to an organization for a service, they aren't obligated to provide that service to you?
Exactly what SERVICE are you paying HP for. Last I checked, a printer was a good, not a service
Sounds vaguely communistic.
That's it, invoke communism. That's sure to back your argument, whatever it was.
What makes you think they were ever obligated to provide them in the first place?
Because I paid them money for their product? Again, this attitude of yours that people should be allowed to steal money from other people and provide them with nothing in return sounds vaguely communist.
The pronoun 'them' refers to the drivers you think you're entitled to download. You are wrong. You paid for the printer and the drivers _on_a_cd_. If you lost them, or allowed the cd to become destroyed, that is entirely your fault, and not HP's. For nearly ten years, HP has provided additional copies of said drivers electronically to careless owners like yourself, under no obligation to do so, and without you paying for it.
The first two are valid points
As is nearly everything else I told you off list because it's not relevant to the KCLUG
but you need to look up all the big words in the phrase "an 'as-is, don't expect support' fashion" which confuse you into thinking that I'm saying HP should provide technical support for the existing drivers.
Doesn't matter. If HP provides them on any basis; If they provide them at all, some percentage of the populace will call in and eat up support time. At least the amount of time it takes someone from HP to tell them to go away.
How Zen!
How clueless.
A $300 PDA next to a stove all the time? I'm not made of money, <blah> you must have a dozen throwaway PDAs lying around.
So you know, most people keep a PDA in their pocket. I actually have one I haven't used in a while. I will give it to you at the next LUG meeting if you publicly concede you are wrong, and stop polluting the mailing list with garbage that neither pertains to Kansas City nor GNU/Linux. I paid $500 for it at the time, and it was worth it. It's probably faster than your laptop. Here's a link so you can see what it looks like, and decide: http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitl...