Floppy disc reader/writer status report

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu May 10 00:48:42 CDT 2007


Dave McGuire wrote:
>> In fact, I can't rememeber a single bug report that we've submitted in
>> the past year or so, which we haven't figured out the fix for before
>> EM^Wthe vendor got back to us with any sort of usable workaround.
> 
>   Yep.  That sort of crap is why I abandoned almost all commercial 
> software.  It's just not worth fighting with companies whose primary 
> motivation is to make money at any cost, customers be damned.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html

Section on "Robin Hood" and "Friar Tuck".  Customers getting ignored can 
lead to interesting happenings.

Peace...  Sridhar


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