Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10/02/04 23:38]: > > If enough people order the posters (free of charge, to anywhere in the U.S. > > and Canada), could we put them out of business? > > Dude, they got $40 billion in the bank. Figuring 250M people in the US, and $1 > per poster (for printing, shipping, etc), that's 160 posters for *everybody*.
I wasn't being entirely serious. More pointing out that freely offering to mail everyone in all of North America 75 posters probably wasn't the best decision they could have made. Although they /have/ made worse. US$40 billion is a lot of money. And, to get technical, we'd probably only have to burn through about 1/4 of that to start making them sweat, 1/2-2/3 would result in some serious repurcussions from their end. Still, even at 'only' 1/4 of $40 billion, that's many a wall that would be covered by Microsoft marketing materials. However, I'm sure once they handed out their ten millionth poster, they'd close down the free-landfil^Wposters-for-everyone deal. As it appears they did at the end of January. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
