Monday, December 20, 2004
shrink wrap EULAs take a stab through the heart
A California court has required that the terms of shrink-wrap eulas must be disclosed before purchase. And I just read the most devastating sets of rants against HP I've read in an eon.
I had a 20 year love affair with HP, starting with my first HP-41C calculator. I admired Mr Hewlet and Mr. Packard for being the "Ben & Jerrys ice cream" of quality engineering. I wish the fight over the company had gone another way. Ever since Carly started gutting the company and ratcheting up the PR machine... and I ended up with two dead HP scanners and one HP printer in my basement - I've refused to buy HP products. Once you've lost your sense of what Bob Persig called "Quality", you've lost it forever. Carly never had it, but she's a wall street darling and covergirl for at least a couple more years while she finishes gutting one of the best companies that ever existed.
¶ 5:52 PM
