At 01:23 PM 9/22/2008, you wrote:
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:07:58 -0400
From: Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well thank you for proving my point, though I don't appreciate the
crudity and am not quoting that part of your post. When you have to
resort to crudity it is a good sign that your case is not a good one. You
are only trying to squelch discussion.
An organization that has to depend on second-hand donations and vendor
give aways is clearly not operating in a free market. Just like someone
sleeping on a park bench on a cold Winter night is not exercising a free
market preference for cold and hard beds.
I guess that you proved my point by your response. I guess you never
have had to deal with Non-Profit's that serve the Handicapped. Where
each dollar is scarce. Most well run non-profit's can't afford
paying full price for PC's/Mac's so they deal with what they can get
reasonably.
It also makes it much easier to hire IT support people as the ratio
is probably 1000:1 of PC-MAC in the local hiring market. Check out
Craig's list or the classified. Also many NP's just throw away
machines as they crap out beyond repair.
Many non-profits depend on second hand donations for a lot of their
office equipment and computers.
Maybe you could price out 100 Mac's and software for the NP that I
volunteer for.
Your suggestion that I am trying to squelch discussion does not hold
water because everyone on this list knows in the bottom of their
heart that you are always correct and everyone else (except a few)
are 1000% wrong.
Or maybe the list should be changed to the TP discussion list.
Joining and posting will guarantee you a response that should shake
your confidence in all the decisions that you have ever made.
Rich
PS: your response was a bit elitist.
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