On 10/19/06, Roelof K. Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
" You get what you pay for " is accepted as a fact by a lot of people.
Sometimes tongue n cheek this is turned around:
You pay for what you get.
Sometimes not so tongue in cheek:
We got Katrina, and are paying for the Mississippi Watershed Control
System Updates
.... 35 years too late...
(Next summer, another hurricane might lose another trillion dollar$).
This certainly is not true in the case of J however. I will be doing
Agreed.
another sales job on J to the department of computing science here and I am
almost afraid to tell people that J is free since that devalues it in the
eyes of a lot of people.
I could say that some of the best things in life such as fresh water and
clean air in some places are still free but these are not produced by man.
Any ideas on how to explain the free part?
cheers
Roelof
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