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
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> 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)
>