A very good friend of mine, paid for a notebook with a personal check in November from QLI, they still havent delivered it or a refund to him. Now I see the following on their web site:

After 6 years of serving the Linux Community, QLI technologies will be ceasing operations as of March 15th 2004. All orders in progress will be refunded and current warranty returns are being processed

They have obviously been in trouble for a while. However I dont buy that orders will be refunded. They stone walled my friend all through January and February while they were still taking orders. That sounds more like fraud to me.

Raymond Sanders the owner of QLI posts a poignant blog entry about some people being fuckwads about their closing. I would imagine that being some of the people who appear have been defrauded and might be upset. Hmm. I really do hope that Ray manages to provide refunds or the like. If he does I will let you know.