P� torsdag, 23 december 2004, skrev Bill Kendrick: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:41:32PM -0800, Norm Matloff wrote: > <snip> > [quoting an article...] > > Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on a visit to India in November 2002, wooed > > the federal and state governments in India, offering to sell his company's > > software at prices much lower than market rates. > > Which pisses off everyone ELSE, because it makes them feel stupid for > paying 'full price.' :^)
I would also like to point out that there is really no such thing as a non-market transaction on that scale. A more accurate statement would be that the market rates (= what buyers are willing to pay) for proprietary MS software are very low in India. Since software is nor particularly supply-limited, this likely indicated soft demand. Or, in plain English, the Indians don't really want the software all that much. ;-) -- Henry House +1 530 753 3361 ext. 13 Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system usually rejects it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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