On Friday 26 May 2006 11:45, Warren Noronha wrote: > No. Flexgo is more like a hire purchase scheme. You pay in > installments, and after a bunch of installments you own the license.
It's still _lame_. > Its nice to read up on this before you slam things. I did. They call it the prepaid PC. I "slammed" it because the idea sounds lame [to me]. [quote] "Prepaid computers give the consumer access. The consumer only pays for the prepaid computer when he uses it. And from the retailer's point of view, it's an intelligent solution because the consumer can't use the computer unless he pays. So we see a win-win situation. It reduces the cost for the consumer, because he pays the installments only when he is effectively using the machine, and it's a better financing option for the retailer..." [/quote] 800 hours is insane... but thats _my_ POW :) -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
