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

["GPS" <gps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

+No. They equate defective product => lawsuit.
+I've never seen a case where someone received damages, (except maybe in
+small claims court for the price of a dinner), for poor service. I'm sure
+you understand that in the US and many other countries you can sue anyone
+for anything. It doesn't mean your case will even get to court. It just
+makes good headlines when the lawsuit and not the details are told.
+
+> Now, if you can make a good case that Cobalt has caused you damage and
+> that you are, as Dan wishes to think, just one of their victims, then
+> the legal system is there to help you punish them. *Then* you try to get
+> them to pay through the nose for what they did to you. And one of the
+> things you should be required to do in a lawsuit is demonstrate that you
+> have not yourself contributed to the damages caused to you (by, for
+> example, negligence of your responsibilities).
+
+I've never before seen someone using an appliance precisely as it was sold,
+advertised and fully according to the printed instruction manual,
+accused of
+being negligent. I have on the other hand seen companies that sold
+defective
+appliances accused of negligence.
+Whether or not the Cobalt servers or the software Cobalt used were
+defective
+has yet to be proved.
+--
+Dan Kriwitsky
+

Well here Tuesday's come and gone, half the Raq3's on the planet have gotten
hacked
and STILL not a PEEP from Sun/Cobalt. No ProFTP PKG yet, No public
statement, no communication,
no "We're sorry". Nothing. Nada. Public Relation Geniuses they are. Ignore
it and it will
go away. Won't affect sales at all. Does Sun treat it's customers the same
way?