On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:46:21 -0700, you wrote:
>only works in a competitive market, non monopolized. and no
>asppersions were cast at marketing strategy, only at dumb greed.
>remember the train industry!
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This is entirely off-topic for vortex-l, so I don't intend to pursue
it much longer, but I'd like to remind you that the software industry
is hardly a monopoly. There are a few major players who, at the
moment, seem to be calling the shots, and if you disagree with their
tactics then compete with them in the marketplace by writing a
smaller, better, faster, cheaper package than they offer and let the
world beat a bath to _your_ door.
Interestingly, your proselytizing for the purpose of trying to recruit
converts to your world ("If enough people do it it'll be OK") of
piracy hardly smacks of anything but dumb greed on _your_ part, in
that you don't want to pay for the value of what you want, you want to
pay what _you_ want to pay and you want to be the arbiter of what a
fair price is.
You make up excuses like, "They don't have any overhead so it's OK for
me to rip them off" which seem appealing but are nonsensical in that
it doesn't matter _what_ their overhead structure looks like, it's
none of your business and neither are any of their other business
practices. Bottom line is, the price of the software is the price of
the software and if you don't like it, don't buy it.
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John Fields
