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4 Sep 2024 11:21:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Babbage Flaw  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 13 May 2010 12:24:04
Message: <4bec27a4@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 13 May 2010 02:01:38 -0400, Warp wrote:

>   One shouldn't, though, forget the marketing tactics Microsoft used,
>   and
> is still using, to enforce their products on people.

Oh, no, absolutely - there are many things they did once customers got 
into the cycle to lock people in (something else they've done well is to 
find the right price point so people will tolerate less than perfect 
software; they may not love it, but they don't hate it enough to spend 
the money to switch).

Jim


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