Charlie Coleman wrote: > At 04:53 PM 9/28/2009 +0100, Alan Bourke wrote: > >> Ah Microsoft, the first hit is always free ;) >> > > LOL, yeah, "free". > > MS is really scrambling lately... fighting back at Mac's TV commercials... > "Windows 7 party"... "Free (but not really) software"... heh. But they keep > losing the mindshare. > > But I'm sure they've got a lot more marketing tricks to play I suspect (I'm > waiting for "Get VS<blah blah> and we'll give you An innovative marketing trick would be to ship a fully tested product, with simple to understand licenses, without bullshit language and acronyms, and a compromise of open sourcing the code if they ever decide not to support it. Then, and only then I 'might' start to consider buying it from them.
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