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   From: jax@knickersjaxtrawstudios.com   
      
   EvilBill wrote:   
   > Jaxtraw wrote:   
   >> Anybody wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> and   
   >>> every new idiot in charge thinks they know a better way to make more   
   >>> money out if it.   
   >>   
   >> What have you got against people making money?   
   >>   
   >   
   > I think he's against people being greedy; I mean, just look at   
   > Micro$haft. Rich beyond the dreams of avarice, so can easily afford to   
   > sell their products at prices that *everyone* can afford,   
      
   Why should they? They're a business. If people are stupid enough to pay   
   exhorbitant prices, they have every right to charge them.   
      
   >yet they   
   > still insist on slapping prices on them that only the super-rich can   
   > pay.   
      
   Uhm... so all the zillions of people using Windows are "super-rich" are   
   they?   
      
   > Corporate fatcats   
      
   "I hate people who are richer than me because of my irrational belief that   
   somehow making them poor would make me richer".   
      
   > commanding extreme salaries for sitting on   
   > their fat arses while the dogsbodies get paid less than minimum wage.   
      
   I doubt they're paying less than minimum wage, since that'd be kind of   
   illegal. I get the feeling the programmers at Microsoft are getting a tidge   
   more than minimum wage.   
      
   > That sort of thing.   
      
   "That sort of thing" being what exactly?   
      
   Get a Mac. Build a PC and install Linux. Or do what I do, and toddle happily   
   along on a venerable copy of Win98 and "legacy" software. I'll be fucked if   
   I'm paying about a thousand quid for this Vista thing or whatever it's   
   called. I don't need it, so I won't buy it. If they drop the price to around   
   50 quid, I might try it. That's how the market works.   
      
   It really isn't Bill Gates' fault that there's one born every minute.   
      
      
   Ian   
      
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