The issue here is that these resellers sold their soupped up machines as
legitimate.   They sold their camaros as corvette's.
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Tuesday, March 23, 1999 12:28 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: HP crackdown on resellers

Forrest Smith writes:

> Only in America!!!!
>
>  I'm sure glad GM didn't send me and all my buddies in high school to
prison
>  for reconfiguring the operating systems on our Camaro's and Mustang's
to
>  the performance levels of corvette's and shelby cobras......
>
>  Times are changing and HP is still chasing after the old ways.

If the story alleged in the Sacramento Business Journal is true, then
there is
no doubt that the behavior of Abtech, Hardware House, and others was
flagrantly criminal and should be prosecuted to the full extent
possible.

I certainly have no compassion for people who behave in such a manner.

Wirt Atmar