On Oct 8, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Jay F Shachter wrote: > Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Paul K. Dickson would > write on Wed Oct 8 07:28:07 2008: > >> >> The big wigs here are mandating that we go with a pay product so we >> have support as well as the idea that it will work better. Huh!?. >> It doesn't seem to matter that time and time again I have shown that >> ASSP has a 99.95% accuracy rate and support, even bugs, are >> addressed the same day, if not with in hours of reporting them. On >> a side note, it irritates the shit out of me when people who know >> nothing about the technology ignore the knowledgeable person's >> recommendations! >> > > Calm down -- I have a solution to your problem. Buy your mail > filtering software from my corporation. Of course, I cannot legally > charge you for ASSP, but I can charge your for some other > mail-filtering software that I have written, and then I can throw in > ASSP as a free bonus. Or, I can bundle ASSP into my product, and > sell the combined package as a single product. Then, you can discard > my own mail-filtering software, because it is worthless, and run only > ASSP. And, if your managers insist, I can also charge you a monthly > fee for support, which you will never need, but it will make your > managers happy that you have a support contract. And I really will > support your ASSP installation if you, or your successor, wants me > to, although ASSP is so well-behaved that I highly doubt you will > need to call on my services. > > Everyone will be happy. Your users will have mail filtering software > with a 99.95% accuracy rate, your managers will be happy that you are > using a paid-for product, and I will be happy to collect large amounts > of unearned money every month. Not as happy as I would be if I were > earning the money (truly), but I will console myself with the thought > that it is a virtuous act to divert money away from stupid people, > into the hands of people who can use it more wisely.
If you do this... I think you should hire an assistant to assist in this great opportunity! So I will throw in my hat to answer phone calls from the big wigs and tell them that any issues that come up about once every 5 years "We are aware of the problem and are working quickly to resolve the issue" :) -- Jason Pruim Raoset Inc. Technology Manager MQC Specialist 11287 James St Holland, MI 49424 www.raoset.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
