On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:17, Zane Gilmore wrote: > The company(s?) make way way > way too much money for the amount of good that is provided to our society. Hear here! Well said Sir.
> It's only software! > Why has it made some of the richest men in the world? To begin with, it was a good deal because the software was enabled people to do a better and cheaper job than that which could be done entirely manually. Then, as complexity increased, the addictive Mysterious Magician Factor increased in unison, and the general public in business quickly found that the population had become de-skilled & they could not do without these toys. The purveyors of computers, like the other industry which refers to it's customers as 'users', were then able to charge more or less whatever they wanted. Remember that in the US company directors are legally liable if they fail to produce the maximum return possible on shareholder funds. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
