>From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
>
>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.
Lease it to them. That way both parties get something.
Dwight
>
>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
>
>
>>>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.
>
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Received on Fri Dec 19 2003 - 13:53:24 GMT