More Microsoft class-action documents on Web

TalkBack 4 of 17:

Next »

« Previous

• Thread View
• Flat View

If you knew anything about...

software marketing, or marketing in general, you would know just how rediculous and uninformed your information and comments really are. First of all, MS does not set the price for software (yeah, still following me?). It is the willingness of consumers, both business and private, that sets the price. This is what it means to be in a free market economy, supply and demand. You always have the option NOT to pay for the software, i.e. not to purchase it, and thereby to drive the price for it down. Instead, everyone in IT and in general, always wants to have the latest and greatest, wants to have the "freshest" stuff out there. Well guess what, you get to pay FULL PRICE.

The idea that MS overcharged at a rate of 90% is simply rediculous. Who sets how much I can charge, a bunch of lawyers that will charge 33.3% no matter how much money is involved and how much work was performed (think 33.3% of $400 million that's going to go to those lawyers). What's next, farmers filing class action lawsuits because they undercharged their customers in the past? Or women filing against the diamond industry (close to 1000% markup - this is documented many times over).

Think about that next time you simply read some ZDNET nonsense. Sheesh, the writers here barely know what a PC is these days anymore, and they now want to go around and hammer out ideas of a "new economy" with a whole new set of rules for supply and demand. I guess we really are turning more and more into the socialists that we abhored back in the day - especially after reading some of the poopoo that gets on this website.

Folks, I can't stress this enough: Start using your head when you read something, and stop blindly following like a sheep everytime the media tells you something! Just ask any one of those media folks about the definition of "monopoly" and how it pertains to the likes of Windows, Sun, and Van der Beers, and they'll try to find the answer somewhere in the acoustic tiles above their head. Yet these same folks have no trouble with media one-upmanship where they repeat and rerepeat each other's stories - many times based on nothing but 10 seconds of sound bites out of a 60 minute interview. You're learning from people that have the wit of a flea and the intellectual patience of a five year old. Just the other day I actually watched a bunch of "news" anchors reading from the headlines of a newspaper while holding them up in front of the camera as if to say: See, I did my homework?! How much more insulting can you get?

No wonder people don't know their head from their butt anymore, with "newsmedia" telling us more about Britney Spears and what outfit she wore, or about how gay rights this and sports celebrity in jail that, rather than why our government makes decisions that actually really affect us and our kids every day.

Does anyone even think for themselves anymore? And yea, that does include you, Mike.

It's not what you read that scares me folks, it's how you're reading it.

Posted by: rock06r   Posted on: 03/18/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

Alert moderator to an offensive message

Subscribe to this discussion via Email or RSS

SponsoredWhite Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads

• Why Isn't Server Virtualization Saving Us More? A Few Small Changes May Dramatically Increase Your Efficiency VMware Companies have rapidly adopted server virtualization over the past few ... Download Now
• Key Strategies for Federal Agencies - Safe and Cost Effective Migration for Legacy Hardware GovConnection The federal government has mandated that federal agencies reduce energy ... Download Now
• Building the Virtualized Enterprise with VMware Iinfrastructure VMware VMware virtualization software has been adopted by over 120,000 enterprise ... Download Now