Lars, I suggest that to the WSJ it would look a bunch of nice users of a dying operating system giving money to charity. Where is the "wake up call" in that? - Cortlandt "Lars Appel" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:399c65f6$1_2@skycache-news.fidnet.com... > Yet another twist... it's late night here, so bear with me ;-) > > Imagine a large community of HPe3000 users and vendors gets together > to collect a fairly large sum of money for placing a full page ad in > Wall Street Journal to let high level HP management and the rest of > the readership learn about true customer loyalty and a very valuable > HP invention with 28 years of history... > > Now imagine those people decide to not spend $150,000 for a printed > page of paper, but make up their minds and make that a donation for > some charity, maybe asking the HPe3000 division manager to represent > them for handing over the donation... > > Would Wall Street Journal consider a story about that? > Or would they just be angry about losing a $150K deal? > > (The planned ad and the story behind could be placed at www.hp3000.org) >