[tlinux-users:08839] Re: P105-9722 issues..

"Thomas Charron" <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:50:08 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.toshiba
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jan 30, 2008 5:33 AM, bestonnet <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- Thomas Charron <[email protected]> wrote:
> >   Funny..  Toshiba *sold* it to me.  It *says* toshiba on
> > it.  :-D
> Yes, but it was not made by Toshiba but by another company
> (this kind of thing is pretty much standard in the computer
> industry though so it isn't only Toshiba that does it).

  That's all well and good.  After this sort of support experience, I,
and no one else in my company, will ever buy a Toshiba computer again.
 Utter and total lack of followup support.  Even this mailing list, I
see no support coming from Toshiba, just users of the list.

> >   There's that real thing again.  By the way, even what
> > you are refering to as a 'real' release was reverse
> > engineered and hacked, and not actually assisted by
> > Toshiba at all.
> I was under the impression that Toshiba did release some
> documentation (though I understand it took some prodding).

  Some specifications for older laptops was released at
http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/index.htm to their defense.

-- 
-- Thomas