Keith Nagel wrote:
>
> Hi All.
>
> I certainly feel foolish when I bend over
> backwards to satisfy clients for very little money while
> so many bootleg my work.
>
Wrong profession Keith.
Service call & diagnostics of Trane gas furnace, $80.00
Mandatory Safety Check, $50.00
Electric Resistance flame ignitor discounted $93.00 looks like a
$5.00 part
$2
23.00 plus tax.
> Here's a crazy thought, Leaky. Are the admittedly aggresive
> tactics taken by the larger houses perhaps a reflection on
> the behaviour of the markets being sold to, rather than
> simple greed? Could your personal behaviour have anything
> to do with the situation we find ourselves in?
>
> Full moon indeed, Fred...
>
Told you so. :-)
Frederick
> K.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Fields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:05 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: off topic..mad about software registration..........
>
>
> 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!
>
> ---
> 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.
>
> --
> John Fields
>
>
