From: Bob Nicksic <nicksic@enteract.com>
  To  : 'ggi-develop@eskimo.com' <ggi-develop@eskimo.com>
  Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 15:55:38 -0500

Political-corporate rant (was RE: NVidia is a horseshit company) Please kill this thread now.

On Saturday, September 19, 1998 11:45 AM, Sengan Baring-Gould 
[SMTP:sengan@seqnet.net] wrote:
> > Do you expect a full
> > schematic for the card's layout too?  Why not?  Don't you feel you
> > have a "right" to that information?
>
> Actually I DO. That's how it was in Russia, allowing people to repair
> theirradios/TVs whatever. I find it morally wrong that 1 year after I 
bought a
> VCR
> it breaks, and I have to fork out money to get it repaired since it does 
not

You are failing to realize that your vcr is *supposed* to break after a 
year ( or just after your warranty ends).  It is a little know policy of 
"engineering to fail", where a 2 cent piece of plastic is designed to fail 
so that they can charge you $35 to replace it (plus labor of course).  It 
is a sad state that companies are forced to resort to such price gouging 
and deceptive proctices to keep their _shareholders_ happy.  It is not 
about putting out a reliable and durable product anymore.  Sorry that this 
post has nothing to do about GGI et al, I just had to voice my disgust and 
outrage that manufacturers value their already filthy rich shareholders 
more so than their customers.  Just look at McDonalds.  Remember when the 
BigMac was a kick ass sandwich?  I do.

Bob

> come
> with full documentation. I view the continual dumbification of people to 
be
> another
> sign of the decline of our "civilisation". I am very fed-up of my freedom 
being
>
> continually curtailed by closed standards, dumb ass views like "well just 
don't
>
> use a computer then", etc. Why is it that so many people believe 
companies'
> interest is the same as people's interest. It is not. Their interest is
> profit/exploitation.
> Our interest is freedom. Unless we defend our interest, we'll lose it.

Sorry to inform you of this, but we already lost it a long time ago.  We 
are SOL and there is nothing we can do about it.

Bob (the pissed off realist)
>
> Sengan
>