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The legality should be

The legality should be discussed in court don't you think? It can't be settled in another way from my point of view. Or at least hire one of the best lawyers in Louisville and you can also talk about the Louisville KY insurance! It's a very good deal isn't it? As a firm you must have a representative at all costs.

HP *had* to release their WM5 upgrade because they had promised it and didn't want to go the Fujitsu-Siemens (F-S) route.

The F-S folks had also promised the upgrade for their flagship model 718/720 but, then, refused to release it. It was already existing and being betatested; even some FirstLoox members had the chance to play with it. This was one of the first blows to the, up to then, really popular F-S brand. I think it also contributed to their recent leaving the Windows Mobile scene - in addition to their other cardinal mistakes (not releasing a REAL successor, keeping the feature set of the original device, to the 718 / 720; not officially selling the handheld in the States, releasing the far-from-perfect T830 etc).

The same stands for Asus and Toshiba - they have also refused to release a WM5 upgrade for their VGA devices. No wonder they are pretty much out of the market right now (except for Toshi's returning with the G900 and Asus' some - not very popular - PPC phones and navigation solutions; still, they are in no way as famous as the Asus / Toshi handhelds were between 2002 and 2004 - particularly in the e800 days.)

Of course, HP should have spent a LOT more on careful planning (sector size) & testing (various other bugs discovered & fixed by users in an hour). Still, I think HP has done the right thing by releasing the upgrade - they, at least, released *something*, even if it was a pretty crappy one.

Yup, the ROM type does have a direct effect on the speed of compaction.

However, the original 2.00 (and, to some degree, even the 2.01 - for example, the touchpad bug wasn't fully fixed in it either) version had a lot more problems, completely unrelated to compaction.

To the first question / comment:

well, it seems the folks at HP don't really concentrate their forces on either quality assurance (see the REALLY bad bugs in version 2.00 - and even 2.01 - easily (after some minutes of playing with the upgrade) spotted and fixed by me and some other hackers) or hiring some real programmers / system engineers.

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The legality should be

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