Re: pricing

[Paul DuBois]

At 4:03 PM -0500 7/19/99, Robert Semenoff wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sweeney, Darren L <darren.l.sweeney@stripped>
>>Please be careful not to generalize Windows users ... and never flame them
>>en masse on a public mailing list ... please be professional.
>
>>
>>I use NT because it is company policy ... in a firm with over 16,000
>>employees that cannot be changed overnight and probably never will be ...
>
>That's a good policy. After all, a company that pays the salaries that
>support 16000 families does so by operating within a free market system
>where products and services cost money, so it serves the best interests of
>the economy as a whole to do business with companies that respect that model
>by charging a fair price for their products, which Microsoft does.


That's an interesting point of view.

You seem to be saying that it's better economic policy to spend more and
not less.  I'm sure I must be misunderstanding something, though, because
to me, what you've written sounds like it came straight from the Redmond
PR department.

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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped