They do NOT make your life easier/better. On the contrary, they make your life worse.
----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Leafe To: ProFox Email List Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 9:33 AM Subject: Re: Dabo 64-bit? (was RE: Vulcan.NET) On Mar 6, 2009, at 11:22 AM, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > On a serious note though, if MonkeyBoy Ballmer called you and said > "Paul, > you open-source, bleeding liberal, socialistic SOB (...well, maybe he > wouldn't say that part), what do you suggest we do in our sales > strategies? Paul, we can't just give it away...how would we make our > money?" Provide true value to customers, where people *want* to buy your products. The reason Word and Excel became such important products is that they made life easier for their users, and that was worth paying money for. How does Vista or XP or Win7 make your life easier than the previous version? How about the latest Office versus the previous Office? Is it worth the cost? Or do you feel compelled to pay for the upgrade because the old version will be rendered incompatible or insecure? -- Ed Leafe [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/06c601c99e8f$54fe3e70$8600a...@w2k3s02 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
