HP needs to end this farce and fire the whole board of directors

I don't normally start my email subjects out with the word bullshit, but in this case reading that memo really irked me. I could not have been more unhappy. Mark Hurd did nothing more than simply tell everyone that it was OK for them to break the law as long as the greater good was in stopping the leaks. As long as HP is making good products we should overlook their misbehavings. Today alone, due to Dunn still being a member of the board, I have told many of my friends and customers not to buy HP. It isn't that they fired employees and bought Jets for the executives alone that turns me off to HP. It is this overall behavior. These people are out of control and when caught they won't take responsbility.

Now to see that Patricia Dunn will remain on the board is just as bad as having her as the chairperson. They need to end this farce and fire the whole board of directors and start over. Their inaction is creating a coverup of responsibility which should appall everyone that has heard about this.

These people invaded the private lives of not only the board members using illegal methods but they did so of others who were not members of the board, including the journalists, and even the journalist's family members. Then they knowing used the information (knowing it was illegally obtained). To top that off they lied to the SEC about Perkins, amended only minor parts when it was brought out, and then finally admitted why he left.

They are telling everyone, absolutely everyone, that an employeer can investigate your personal records even through illegal means as long as you the customer realize that they still have good products. Just pathetic.

JB

Roofreading

Dear Onk

roofreading, yeah they've hurd of IT.

Howe does such thins get threw to publishing?

...hen trying to red as many Inq articles in he shortest dime possible, grammar mistakes slow you own...

he Inq's standards our high.

Otherwise, keep up the god work. :-?

Neal

Xbox patent

People have been doing this for years. It makes you wonder why patents are issued so easily.

Just look at the postal system. people drop of their mail at the postal collection points and the postman delives then in one batch. there is nothing new in this concept. But certain people love to state the obvious in a patent and sue anyone wealth enough to encroach on their patent. The patent should never be given to trivial things.

Next they will want to patent breathing techniques for sportpeople.

Nabil Sukkan

Whodunnit

HP sealed it's fate by forcing Dunn out for during the right thing and finding the mole in the HP board. HP's actions on all fronts is unacceptable and I will not be purchasing any of their products ever again. Note that I am typing this on an almost new HP laptop...

Won't get fooled again or be manipulated by unscrupulous board members at HP!

Raceware

Everywhere Girl gets to Harvard

http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/fasro/index.jsp

James R Geraci

"Will the patches never end?" you ask. No says Ed but I say "You bet your sweet patookie!"

Windows XP is going to be almost 6 years old when consumers get their hands on it. What is Microsofts end of life policy????? Microsoft has a new operating system that, other than eye candy, dosen't seem to do much more than XP, is going to take, for many, a new computer and cost at least another $100.

Office 2007, Internet explorer 7, and media player 11 work on xp not to mention their are many themes that approch vistas basic look. Microsoft claims that sec urity is vistas real selling point to corporations. What does Microsoft have to strong arm you into buying Vista if it keeps patching xp?

Although Microsoft will continue to sell xp for 1 year (2 years for builders) after vistas availability, it will shut down as quickly as it can. Remember, MS only wanted to sell windows 98se for 3 years. MS won't give into us the way it did for 98, especially if sales for vista are lagging.

Besides the eye candy (corps. dont care except for presentations), directx 10 (ditto), and security (Ding! Ding! Ding!). Ms new policy is that after this period they can charge you on a case per case basis for support and hotfixes.

Xp really is a pretty good os once we all got computers powerfull enough to run it smoothly and I dont think that vista is carrot enough to lure us all in view of recent reviews of the RC1. I really thind MS will try to stick to its guns and stick it to us as soon as it can. No more updates, no more XP. At least thats probably the plan. Xp being stable and reliable is going to be harder to kill off than 98 was.

On another note, none of those Chineese computers based on the Godfather cpu are even close to meeting vista requirements. That promises to be a huge sector of the world computer market in a few years. What is Ms going to do to get them?????? Will the vole come up with (or outright buy) some version of Linux with a super version of wine to run it's office products??????? hummmmmmmmm......

Joel Schlecht

Numbers Up

I sometimes sit there and think... is it really that hard to name a processor or a gaphics card ?

I mena intel had it right first, you make a family, the Pentium brand, then you rate it in ghz. OKay it didnt mean much but when u looked at intel u knew 2.8 was better than 2.0.

I mean now BL-X, G+, G, P, Q and the QF ??? What the hell ? Even amd are smarter ! Surely they can count from 1 upwards ? so why not have the Intel Pentium V 100,110,120,130,140,150,160,170,180,190,200 and so forth... that wouldnt be so hard now would it ??

ehehe just my 2 cents.

Lord Mozilla

Hi Again Mike,

HP is predictably claiming ignorance as to the actions of their investigative agents. A couple of points to consider when deciding whether to believe their claims of innocence:

1. At some point, HP received the results of this investigation and then took action against their directors based upon them. These results included the private home phone records of HP employees and several reporters with no connection to HP. Is there a legal and ethical way to obtain such private information? The acceptance and use of this private data is inherantly unethical, regardless of the means used to get it.

2. HP's investigative agents needed the director's personal data to pose as them. A key component used to impersonate them was likely their Social Security Number. HP has this data on their employees for tax purposes. Did they illegally provide this information to their investigators so they could pose as their directors?

I don't think that HP is as far removed from the actions of their agents as they would have us believe. Beyond spying on the private conversations of their own directors, doing the same to the reporters is way out of line. Do you want them looking into the private conversations of INQ's reporters? I think this story has legs...

Keep up the good work!

Name supplied

Non-geek

Your article gave me the idea that you could make the “Everywhere Girl” the official INQ guinea pig to test new software and devices, providing readers with the "common non-geek" perspective.

Also, Im still waiting for INQ to tell people about Screamer. A little free application that records Internet radio music. It creates a file for each song with artist and song title. I let it run 24/7 and have captured many thousands of high quality songs with no talk or commercials.

Thanks for the great job you all are doing.

Mark Tighe Saint Paul, MN

Dear inquirer,

You had been written:

>That paper said Lenovo now has 10 product lines >which use AMD "chipsets". It's unclear what >that means - AMD doesn't produce chipsets, but >ATI does.

But that is not true

AMD-8000™ Series Chipsets http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_4699_4741,00.html

and AMD 8111 is used in PowerPC 970 FX (G5FX) systems page 7 of the

http://www.970eval.com/images/Maple_D_10_Website_Spec_FINAL.pdf

It seems that you do not know that AMD had WLAN chipset in 1995

Am79C930 691KB (PDF) 20183 B 04/01/97 PCnet-Mobile Single Chip Wireless LAN Media Access Controller Am79C930 (Condensed) 72.3KB (PDF) C20183 A 08/01/95 PCnet-Mobile Single Chip Wireless LAN Media Access Controller (Condensed)

http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_6629_8577%5E2520,00.html

I know that AMd sold 90% od it networking divison to Francisco partners in 2000 but they still hold 10%

Yours faithfully

Peter Fodrek