Seems to me that sending in a piece of green plastic in order to (in
essence) buy a new 2.1K amounts to FRAUD, which I'm certain (although I
haven't checked) would override Apple's legal obligation to support a
discontinued product.
Besides, let's ignore the logical angle and look at the ethical situation.
You'd have to be a pretty shady character to actually DO this (there's
nothing wrong with thinking about it, though. I mean who here can honestly
say s/he hasn't at one time or another thought of bumping off someone that
really ticked them off?). My knee-jerk reaction to this is: Kick anyone who
endorses this type of behaviour off of the list and never let them resub.
The truth of the matter is everyone has a different point of view.
Hang on a sec while I put on my asbestos suit.......
I just don't think it's right to endorse fraud on a list like this. But
that's just my $0.02CDN.
Leland Jory
"Newton users swear by their PDAs. WinCE users swear AT their PDAs."
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Benschop <robertbenschop@bigfoot.com>
To: <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: NTLK Pen Alignment Problems
> on 17-02-2000 5:41, T.M. Camp at tmcamp@fusionary.com wrote:
>
> > Sure, and the minute Apple gets wind of people trying to rip them off,
> > they'll discontinue the service. And you will have effectively put one
more
> > (perhaps the final) nail in the Newton coffin.
>
> No they won't, they're legally bound to provide support for a discontinued
> product for a certain amount of years (can't remember exactly, 5 ?)
>
> > C'mon, people. Don't poison the well for everyone just to make a point,
> > hassle Apple, or get something for nothing.
>
> Hm, wouldn't call making sure that get the max out of it (and still
forking
> out $ 189) getting something for nothing, if you think $ 189 is nothing
I'll
> b every happy to give you my bank account number.
>
> > Besides, you think they're not watching this list?
>
> No they're not, we would have noticed a long time ago. (closest we've ever
> been to that was a Microsoft employee that had a subscription ;-)
> BTW, he didn't like the MS bashing that went on at the time very much,
have
> to admit that way back then it did get a little out of hand sometimes.
>
>
> Robert Benschop
>
>
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