Re: Price gouging is beneficial. Price gouging is great!

Circe wrote:
> "Alberto Moreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Said  "Circe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> >
> > > Perhaps <g>! However, I wouldn't pay a penny for most of Microsoft's
> > > software if I had a choice in the matter, so by my estimation, they're
> > > definitely gouging me!
> >
> > You have the choice of using Linux or Solaris, in either case you'll
> > be well served.
>
> In theory, yes. In practice, I must produce work that is in MS Word or MS
> PowerPoint format. Perhaps things have changed, but in the past, I have not
> found it particularly easy or smooth to produce work on one platform and
> deliver it on another. The results are, frankly, uncertain.

But in that case you're not really bying MS, your customers are.

jmh