Class Action Law Suit

["Aaron Gee" <speedracer italian-cars com>]

> It is easy to "do something" about it:

If you have the cash

> stuff skipped here

> While you are at it, if you have Compaq equipment, I suggest that you
> should call them up and demand they refund your money, as they devalued
the
> Alpha machines you bought with their poorly thought out strategy and
> announcements.

I would suggest that if you recently purchased Compaq equipment that you
find other people that have recently bought Comapq equipment and start a
class action lawsuit.  I think what Compaq did with their various FUD
annoucements can be considered a "deceptive trade practice".  INAL (I'm not
a lawyer) but I would think that a class action suit would also get the
DOJ's attention.  The DOJ is MUCH less interested in anti-competitive
behaviour now than it was, they have a lot on their plate at the moment.  I
do think that Compaq's giving away the Alpha team may violate previous court
rulings, then again INAL.

Perhaps a spin off for Alpha can be forced?

> A lot of you made purchasing decisions based on statements by Compaq
> regarding the "future of Alpha" and Compaqs commitment to it.

As was the case, be it Intel or MS, DEC couldn't protect their own patents
or inventions without hireing a BIG team of lawyers.  It looks as if Compaq
and Itel are betting that no one has the cash to take them to court.

> If so, they lied to you. I suggest you demand your money back.

Again, stop saying "lied" and start saying "felony violation of the federal
statute dot dot dot", and "deceptive trade practices".

> But please, do not blame Red Hat. They had nothing to do with it.

RedHat should be in on the suit, as they made some purchases WRT Alpha
technology and that technology has been pulled out of the market place
because of a questionable merger deal?  Any people in the EU think that the
EU anti-monopoly people would have problems with some of this?

If you or your company recently (within the last 12 months) purchased Alpha
or Alpha related hardware perhaps you should e-mail the list and some
enterprising individual can collect the names.  Any state or state funded
institutions would be especially important.  A state attorney general tends
to take a dim view of a company defrauding it's state of even 5 dolalrs,
much less tons more.

Whose game?


Aaron Gee
http://www.italian-cars.com/