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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:55:16 +0000, Tyrone wrote:   
      
   > On Aug 12, 2025 at 10:52:57 PM EDT, "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Always interesting, isn’t it, when someone defends the state of a   
   >> company by trying to point out how profitable it is (i.e. how much   
   >> money it is able to take off customers), rather than how good its   
   >> products are (i.e. how useful those products are to the customers)   
   >> ...   
   >   
   > Always interesting, isn't it, when someone attacks a company by   
   > trying to point out that being successful is a bad thing.   
      
   Why would you see it as an “attack”? I was just pointing out facts.   
      
   > Many people MUST find the products useful, else why would Microsoft   
   > be making so much money?   
      
   That’s a testament to Microsoft’s ability to get those customers to   
   hand over that money. In the real world, that tends to correlate more   
   to the quality of the company’s marketing than to the quality of its   
   products.   
      
   > In fact, Microsoft is now the second $4 trillion company in the   
   > world. NVIDIA was the first.  Is NVIDIA evil also?   
      
   I didn’t say either one was “evil”, but ... do you really need me to   
   answer that?   
      
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