19 Dec
2003
19 Dec
'03
4:57 a.m.
Jim,
You know, you might want to make sure you've got the right company first here is the
website for "Veritas DGC Limited" http://www.veritasdgc.com/ They most
definitly are not Veritas Software Corporation. As for the the question of is it ethical
to sell or give to a large corporation, I don't see giving, but I can sure see
selling. Selling to industries that have need of some of the equipment that Hobbyists
have saved can be a good way of offsetting the storage costs of ones collection.
What's more ethical, hoarding equipment that someone desperately needs, and never
doing anything useful with it, or selling it to someone that needs it?
Zane
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Mr Jan T. Wood
Data Services Manager
Veritas DGC Limited.
Telephone DD: +44 (0)1293 443263
Facsimile: +44 (0)1293 443200
Mobile: 0 77 11 66 4545
From veritas about web page:
VERITAS Software Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTS) is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.,
and employs more than 6,300 people in 36 countries. With annualized revenues over $1.5
billion
in 2002, VERITAS Software ranks among the top 10 software companies in the world.
Through its award-winning and market-leading products focused on business efficiency
and continuity, VERITAS Software provides the building blocks for utility computing.
This is a big operation, Any transactions with this company should be on a BUSINESS
basis.
That then begs the question, Is it ethical ( for a CC'er ) to sell or give classic
equipment to
a large corporation for the profit of this operation? Most likely the equipment will
be locked up in some machine room available at $1000/hr? It's also an oil operation.
I'll leave the members of CC to judge. Their product is mapping data sets for oil
exploration.
One more question? Has Veritas done anything to help the CC cause?
My bad to cc/on-topic ( posted to the wrong group)
Jim Davis.