Scoble calls for HP board to go

IF YOU thought that HP was using a sledgehammer to remove a mote of dust in the recent brouhaha over snooping on journalists, the former Microsoft geek blogger Robert Scoble is recommending some heavier artillery as punishment for HP - the whole board should go, he said.

"HP, if you want out of the valley of bad PR you MUST cut loose Patricia Dunn (and probably the whole board, truth be told)," he suggested in a modest proposal.

His reasons don't just involve ethics but also a share-price drop and a silence he suggests is incriminating rather than just conservative behaviour from the lawyers.

In a subsequent comment, he adds: "I just came back from a venture capitalist's party with many of the valley's richest and most powerful. NOT A SINGLE PERSON spoke out on the side of Patricia, even in private conversations. That's telling."

Whenever Scoble REACHES FOR THE CAPS KEY you know he's serious.

Scoble's not the only one wanting draconian action against HP but most are content to state that Dunn should carry the can. Good to see that, even he's no longer riding the Microsoft whale, Mr Scoble can still spout.

Smoking and its effect on the high-tech economy, how to save Microsoft and now HP ethics… is there nothing this man cannot thunder about?

When Tony Blair finally walks the plank we know who to call on. µ