[nylug-talk] Paper IT certs and disk drive fabrication differences -- clarification

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 00:35 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> IN A NUTSHELL:  
>   If you're selling hundreds of units as an OEM, don't play stupid.  ;)

Likewise, if you are an end-consumer buying an OEM drive, understand
your warranty is actually with the reseller, not the manufacturer.  In
most cases, the reseller negotiates both the warranty period and its
terms that any consumers purchasing the drives will be covered by.

This is all commercial/uniform/consumer code 101 stuff.  I hope you
would recognize this.  If not, please educate yourself because you could
be opening your employer to some liability.

If you buy a retail box and you use it yourself, there is no issue.  If
you buy a retail box, break it open, use it and then resell it, all bets
could be legally off.  If you make it an issue enough for a
manufacturer, they will have a problem with you.  ;)

Again, I wasn't talking about end-users.  I was talking about people
buying and reselling anything.  And even then I said it often doesn't
become an issue until you're talking at least several dozen, if not
hundreds of units.

That's beyond the simple engineering product management facts that you
sample a lot, classify it, and sell it appropriately.  I really don't
care what you think or feel, because the reality is simple statistics at
work.  ;)





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