Daily Archives: May 1, 2003

Oh, this is just so…. well, after sending off th…

Posted by on May 1, 2003 Comments Off

Oh, this is just so…. well, after sending off that last message I got a reply back fairly quickly:

From: feedback@lindows.com
Subject: Lindows.com Autoresponse

We’re sorry, but your email has not reached anyone at Lindows.com (this is an automated message).

It appears you are trying to contact our support team.

For support issues, please visit http://support.lindows.com (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) where you can access our knowledge base with hundreds of FAQ’s. If you don’t find your particular issue and you still need to contact someone at Lindows.com, there is an area at http://support.lindows.com where you can e-mail our support staff.

Thank you,
Lindows.com

Please bear in mind that the message specifically said to reply to this address. Well, I think we can get a pretty good idea of exactly how much they care about the feedback, eh? I think I’ll go ahead and forward this on to Mr Michael Robertson. After all, they should at least know that their feedback system is completely screwed up.

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I read the most recent Michael’s Minutes from Lind…

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I read the most recent Michael’s Minutes from Lindows.com this morning. What a complete load of tripe. I have now unsubscribed from all of their mailings, and when I got the cancellation confirmation it mentioned that if I was unsubscribing because I was dissatisfied I should send them some feedback. So I did:

The cancellation confirmation message that was sent after I had removed my address from your mailing lists suggested that if I was unsubing because I was dissatisfied I should send a message here.

Well, I unsubscribed from your mailing lists when I got done reading the most recent Michael’s Minute. It has been a long time since I’ve seen such irrational scribbling from someone that has the ear of so many people. While I agree that the current DRM solutions that are being offered are far from perfect, they are a step forward and should be recognized as such rather than spouting off lies, myths, and half-truths in order to build some theoretical market share. The last time that I read a tirade of that quality of information was when I decided to peruse a mailing from a particularly egregiously fundamentalist preacher.

I am sorry to think that I have wasted time actually reading his previous missives.

I honestly do hope that the countersuit they are running against Microsoft wins and that Microsoft is no longer able to use the word Windows as a trademark, but other than that I can’t see how a company with a CEO of such magnificent public stupidity will do anything but be a damaging force for his supposedly righteous causes.

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