On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:33:51 -0500 Michael Katz <mkn...@messagepartners.com> replied:
>Responding to support lists is not a sales strategy, and if it was it >would be the worst strategy imaginable because it doesn't work. We >sell software because we have to make a living but answering on lists >is more of a personality trait of mine than anything else. >Regardless, the open source vs. commercial argument is largely dying >because the real argument, in the US at least, is becoming Google vs. >anything else. Their free offerings are ending the need for Postfix, >Amavis, what I make and countless other email products - commercial, >open source or otherwise. Somehow we have all become addicted to the >free stuff that billionairesgive us while spurning the hard work of a >few entrepreneurs trying to make a living. We are a tiny little >company and I answer stuff to try to be helpful, that's it. Save the >cries of evil for people that matter like Google, we are insignificant >unfortunately. IMHO, Google is employing the business method know as "deferred gratification". It is so transparent that I find it hard to believe that there has not been more chatter regarding its business dealings. It appears that only now have some large corporations and government entities started to take action against them. What really annoys me is that when Microsoft lowered prices on some of its retail products they were accused of using the same business tactic. When Google does essentially the same thing, barely a word is spoken. Too many users have become functionally socialist in regards to software. -- Jerry postfix.u...@yahoo.com TO REPORT A PROBLEM see http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail TO (UN)SUBSCRIBE see http://www.postfix.org/lists.html Did you know that clones never use mirrors? Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
