Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 14:42:31 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: mmead@Glock.COM (matthew c. mead) Cc: andrew@io.org, davidg@root.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMC EtherEZ 8416 Message-ID: <199511292142.OAA28707@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199511291638.LAA11112@Glock.COM> from "matthew c. mead" at Nov 29, 95 11:38:42 am
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> Ack! What happened to SMC making great cards? *sigh* I was told > SMC no longer made the Ultras and Elite Ultras. David, do you know if > there's much chance of getting this card working soon? "The liquidators are in control"? === begin useless trivia not necessarily related to the topic at hand === For non-US people: When a company in the US is going out of business, they sell their business and remaining inventory to a liquidator at a discount. A "scam" has erupted around this: once in control, a liquidator sells the inventory plus as much additional crap product as he can shove out the door until his margin drops and he can no longer trade on the formerly good name of the company to shovel crap product out the door at a terrific markup under pretense of selling the same quality product the business used to sell at "bargain prices". In Utah (origin of Ponzi, patron saint of pyramid schemes), one such company was "going out of business" for 14 months. Now there is a law that if you say you are going out of business, you have to go out of business in a set period of time (90 days, I think). === end useless trivia not necessarily related to the topic at hand ===== Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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