On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:13:52AM -0500, Bob Munck wrote:
> > there isn't enough money *in* Manhattan to get me to work there.
>
> Gee, I had a very pleasant six-month job there in the mid 70s,
You're welcome to it. It's one of the last places I'd ever want to be,
let alone actually work in on a recurring basis. My idea of a nice place
to work would be a cabin at 9,000 feet on the western slope of the Rockies
with decent access to whitewater, hiking, and climbing.
>
> > ... vendors that are unethical enough to try to sell their products
> > [through show business-like exhibitions] are also passing along the
> > costs to their customers.
>
> How is that unethical? It apparently does sell products, or vendor
> shows would have faded away years ago. Companies that don't pass all
> of their costs along to their customers are called "hobbies."
It is unethical, IMHO, to attempt to bullshit people into buy your products,
and then to hit them *again* by charging them for the cost of doing so.
(I view this as a different issue from charging people for the cost
of developing a product, QC'ing it, updating it, and so on.)
As a consumer, I am outraged that companies waste money on dancing girls
and stupid giveaways and all the other nonsense that happens at shows
like Comdex instead of spending the money on improving their products.
I'm also annoyed that many of my colleagues fall for this idiocy
and *actually* buy the stuff. I realize that hard statistics on this
aren't available, and will never be available, but I'd like to know
how many boneheaded IT managers bought junk "enterprise solutions"
because they were taken in by the glitz.
Happily, the OSS movement bypasses all of this, and I hope that it will
continue to do so. It's my fond wish that many of the companies who
have lavished attention on their presentation instead of their products
will be blown out of the water by competing OSS, will fail miserably,
and leave the world a better place by ceasing to exist.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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