Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!convex!swarren From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Replacement mouse for A1000 Message-ID: <1991Apr29.232744.28811@convex.com> Date: 29 Apr 91 23:27:44 GMT References: Sender: newsadm@convex.com (news access account) Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx. Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: neptune.convex.com In article mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: >In article alec_vondjidis@icecave.wimsey.bc.ca (Alec Vondjidis) writes: > My dear friend if I was Logitech I'ld sue the pants off you (if I could). > What you are suggesting if not outright illegal is certainly outright > dishonest. > >Uh - make up your mind. Something can't be both not illegal and >dishonest. Now, what I did was scummy and immoral, but that's my >choice. Of course, if Logitech weren't being scummy and immoral in the >first place, I wouldn't have resorted to what I did. [...] Uh, Mike, I have to admit, when I first read your post I was thinking you were doing something dishonest and scummy too. I didn't flame because I read your postings here and it seemed out of character for you. Now I understand what you were doing. You see, I thought you were getting your mouse for free. It wasn't clear from your posting that you were just trying to buy the mouse without all the extranious support electronics. *Now* I understand that what you did was to buy the IBM mouse, modify the mouse portion of it, so it would work in your Amiga, and then *purchased* the replacement part to replace the one you put into your Amiga. Then you returned the (new) mouse with all the unneeded parts to get your original purchase price back. You still payed Logitech for the part that you kept. Personally I see nothing scummy or immoral about what you did. This was nothing but creative bureaucracy-busting. You have no moral imperative to abide by the spirit of their rules, when they have provided a perfectly legitimate way to get what you needed without violating the letter of their rules. Good job, Mike. _. --Steve ._||__ DISCLAIMER: All opinions are my own. Warren v\ *| ---------------------------------------------- V {uunet,sun}!convex!swarren; swarren@convex.com --