RE: [2] [cobalt-users] Cobalt to provide compensation for server hack?

[Rodolfo Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I just snipped out the rest of your post since I am not sure if you
> really want to read it again. You never know how long this post
> needs to get back to the list ;-)

I don't think any of us need to read flames twice; bad enough that I
lose my own temper sometimes. :)

> Finally - not everyone is an expert like you are and I can fully
> understand everyone who bought a Cobalt and finds himself
> (sorry: herself too) in trouble now with all that hacking shit going
> on. The least thing someone like this needs is another 'hacking'
> on his back ...

As usual, you make a good point, Thomas. I should clarify I'm nowhere
*near* "expert" classification... I've just been ignoring my wife for
the last three months while I read every O'Reilly book I can get my
hands on. <grin>

I am 100% in agreement with anyone who says that Cobalt has not done a
good enough job with their software; they need to do better, for our
sake and more globally for their own sake.

I am furthermore 100% in support of anyone who finds that promised
functionality (I mentioned the Qube2 firewall GUI in a recent message)
has not been delivered, and chooses to pressure the vendor to make
things right even if that requires a lawsuit. I find that person to be
"in the right" legally, ethically, and morally.

However, regardless of our respective level of knowledge (it's not skill
you were born with, it's knowledge you acquired through hard work),
you'll notice two types of people on this list:

* Those who work and learn and take responsibility (the 99%), who will
sue if they have been wronged and have no other way of rectifying the
situation

* Those who buy a box, plug it in, expect perfection without effort and
blame Cobalt for anything that goes wrong (the 1%) and who will sue if
they feel they can make a buck.

I was (hopefully clearly) only attacking the second group. My sincere
apologies to anyone in the 99% who may have interpreted otherwise; if
that happened, then I didn't express myself properly.

--
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>