--- "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 11:00 AM 7/19/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van
> DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
> >> >We do? How? AFAIK, what corporations do is
> dictated by the management
> >> >or the shareholders, not the general public.
> >>
> >> Name one corporation that is not dictated to by
> the general public, but
> >> instead dictates to the general public.
> >
> >Microsoft?
>
> Name one person who was forced to buy a Microsoft
> product.
>
> In other words, name one person who paid more for a
> Microsoft product than
> what that Microsoft product was worth to them.
>
> You see, even Microsoft, one of the most
> anti-competitive corporations out
> there, even they were still forced to follow
> *dictates* from the public.
> Indeed, on the news yesterday was a story about
> Microsoft "writing off"
> some losses, because they had launched a number of
> products that nobody
> wants to buy. Thus, per the dictates of the
> public, they were withdrawing
> them.
>
No John, you're wrong. The evil marketing people at
Microsoft *force* the hapless, unthinking populace to
buy their crap. The government needs to save them!
dean
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