On Saturday 27 May 2006 01:09 am, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > 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 :)
Another ridiculous braindead scheme from a comatose corp. Never seen anything more stupid. Pay in installements for a licence which prevents you from doing anything with your comp. HA -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
