> "Marketing is a tax on mediocre products." > > Well said. I had come to the conclusion that superior marketing (with some dose of weasel wording and truth stretching) will outperform superior technology every time.
VHS vs BetaMax 100BaseTX vs HP 100vg Windows 2000 Pro/XP Pro/ 2000 Server (even 2003 Server with VSS) vs Vista and 2008 Server Wintel vs Mac Wintel vs Linux There are exceptions, however, UNIX vs Linux. Both are excellent platforms, Linux offers far greater value for dollar of investment. Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Whil Hentzen > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] M$ "Oh, by the way", extortion pricing; was [fw] New > Vi$ta licensing terms > > > Gil Hale wrote: > > Hmmm... As I see it, until these little efforts by Micro$coff to extort > > additional revenue from consumers are made loudly public, and > consumers are > > educated in mass of viable alternatives, Micro$coff will continue to get > > away with their licensing and billing practices. From a pure economic > > perspective there is nothing particularly unfair about a > consumer "agreeing" > > to the onerous terms of the Vista licensing twist. But it sure does not > > sound like the "one time machine transfer" license limitation > is pointed out > > clearly to the consumer. This is the first I heard of it. > > I heard a great line last night at a user group meeting: > > "Marketing is a tax on mediocre products." > > And everyone knows Microsoft is a great marketing company. > > Whil > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
