Re: pricing

[Sasha Pachev]

Paul DuBois wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
> 

Maybe Robert was making fun of it :-)

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