Skip Robinson wrote:
Back in the day when graduated software charges were young and a certain
whale of a software vendor was swallowing up every little Jonah encountered
in a dark grotto, I excoriated a hapless sales rep for confiscatory pricing
policies. My shrillest point was that he was charging me more to run the
same software as a smaller customer down the street who might be in the
very same business. I was a deep pocket being forced to subsidize a smaller
competitor already snapping at my heals. It was a mutation of the old
two-cow metaphor: if you have two cows, a big one and a small one, you chop
off pieces of the big one to feed the little one until you have only one
cow left. Sociocapitalism? Mad-cow-ism?
That was then. Today I'm happy to help feed the little buggers around me
because I recognize that cows are herd creatures. One loner roaming the
wide open range does not thrive regardless of its size or prowess. My udder
is full. Little ones may step up and take a slug or two.
P.S. This offer is valid only for supplicants who have to reach UP to
imbibe. Bogus posers may expect a swift hoof in kisser for their trouble.
Well I'll get in line. But we offer training not software.
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
The Trainer's Friend, Inc.
303-393-8716
http://www.trainersfriend.com
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