the real issue with this, as relates to this thread, is it’s a really expensive “move on.” either you pay a crapload of cash to fix a machine and then sell it, or you eat the cost of the machine to not get it fixed.
i don’t disagree that the elements of secrecy have been here from the beginning. i was far more accepting of this earlier in the program because there were reasons for them to be secretive before everything was out in the wild. but over the past two years, those reasons have gone away. it’s really annoying that they’ve continued down that path.
and yeah, at some point i can move on if it gets to be too much. but there are lots of other good things going on here, i’d like to keep encouraging GF to become a better company and deal with their customers better than just walk away at that point.