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HP Seeks to Block Competitor From Revealing Its Pricing

Posted by timothy on from the whaddya-mean-the-price-tag's-showing? dept.

Matt Asay writes "On October 13, 2008, Hewlett-Packard sent a complaint to an open-source competitor, GroundWork, asking GroundWork to stop revealing HP's 'confidential' pricing. CNET has posted the letter, which indicates that HP doesn't want its pricing revealed, but which doesn't question the veracity of the pricing (which, not surprisingly, is 82 percent higher than the open-source vendor's). Does HP think its pricing is really a secret? It's publicly available at GSA Advantage. Guess what? HP software costs a lot of money, but presumably feels that it can justify the high prices. Why try to hide the pricing information?"

3 of 144 comments (clear)

  1. High Prices? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought that is what their name stands forâ¦

  2. Software feels it can justify the high prices by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How arrogant! What's next, software that feels it doesn't need programmers?

  3. Re:barbara streisand effect by Rogerborg · · Score: 4, Funny

    When they dispatched the Pony Express to deliver the letter, did they send out a few extras to ensure that at least one made it past the velociraptors?

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