Re: [ilugd] [x-posted]Re: [FSF-WG] Bill Gates quote

2004-05-15 Thread Varun Varma
Ankur Rohatgi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/2004 05:08 PM, Varun Varma wrote: | - Started threatening Ok i am being a flamebait for this email, but what the heck ... As much as i hate MS for my own reasons, i have to say they are what every business would dream of

Re: [ilugd] [x-posted]Re: [FSF-WG] Bill Gates quote

2004-04-13 Thread Viksit Gaur
Just my 2 bits on the M$ thingy.. As for the company itself, microsoft has 2 things going for it at the moment, which we all do accept - Its meteoric rise spread over a span of 25(?) years which has made it a very well known brand, and the fact that it has billions to spend in order to get its

Re: [ilugd] [x-posted]Re: [FSF-WG] Bill Gates quote

2004-04-12 Thread Varun Varma
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Snip To be fair to Billy the Gate, all marketing men round the world think the same way, and this practice (of making customers addicted to their products)is actually taught in some way or the other in marketing classes at business schools throughout the world. So

Re: [ilugd] [x-posted]Re: [FSF-WG] Bill Gates quote

2004-04-12 Thread Ankur Rohatgi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/2004 05:08 PM, Varun Varma wrote: | - Started threatening Ok i am being a flamebait for this email, but what the heck ... As much as i hate MS for my own reasons, i have to say they are what every business would dream of being. Yes they do

Re: [LIG] Re: [ilugd] [x-posted]Re: [FSF-WG] Bill Gates quote

2004-04-11 Thread Raj Shekhar
Eswar wrote: Sandip, you forgot their unhealthy ethics for growing business? Everything is fare in war, Business IS war. And the victims are the customers.. Eshwar business is certainly not war , it is a convenient way to trade what you have for what you don't have. -- / \__ (@\___

Re: [ilugd] [x-posted]Re: [FSF-WG] Bill Gates quote

2004-04-11 Thread Richard Stallman
To be fair to Billy the Gate, all marketing men round the world think the same way, and this practice (of making customers addicted to their products)is actually taught in some way or the other in marketing classes at business schools throughout the world. You're making the

[ilugd] [x-posted]Re: [FSF-WG] Bill Gates quote

2004-04-10 Thread linuxlingam
forwarded without prejudice: On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 04:14, Richard Stallman wrote: This quote could be useful. [snip] On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:57:27AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: We could draw a cartoon of Gates handing gratis packs of Microsoft Windows (looking like cigarette packs)

Re: [ilugd] [x-posted]Re: [FSF-WG] Bill Gates quote

2004-04-10 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
linuxlingam wrote: Although about three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how

Re: [LIG] Re: [ilugd] [x-posted]Re: [FSF-WG] Bill Gates quote

2004-04-10 Thread Yashpal Nagar
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: To be fair to Billy the Gate, all marketing men round the world think the same way, and this practice (of making customers addicted to their products)is actually taught in some way or the other in marketing classes at business schools throughout the world. So while

Re: [LIG] Re: [ilugd] [x-posted]Re: [FSF-WG] Bill Gates quote

2004-04-10 Thread Anirban Biswas
Hi There is nothing called ethics, or none belives in Hindusthani moto Satyameva Jayate, even Indian Companies while doing business. that is why they fail , how much you scream a truth remain truth . On Saturday 10 April 2004 23:06, Eswar wrote: Sandip, you forgot their unhealthy ethics

Re: [LIG] Re: [ilugd] [x-posted]Re: [FSF-WG] Bill Gates quote

2004-04-10 Thread Eswar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- that is why they fail , how much you scream a truth remain truth . ..Vedanta Touch...would like to keep away from this OT, discussion Regards Eswar -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com