At 12:22 PM 3/6/2009 -0500, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote:

...

>On a serious note though, if MonkeyBoy Ballmer called you and said "Paul,

>you open-source, bleeding liberal, socialistic SOB (...well, maybe he

>wouldn't say that part), what do you suggest we do in our sales

>strategies? Paul, we can't just give it away...how would we make our

>money?"

How about....

"Steve, you @!#@! idiot dip-#@$* !$$-hole. I don't give a flying #@$! if

you make any money at all (well maybe I wouldn't use those terms). Hell,

just split your banked 50 Billion amongst your employees and close up your

house. The rest of the world will be a lot better off for it in the long

run. But if you really want to keep going, you're going to have to change

your business model completely. Fire 95% of your lawyers, make all your

software free, and switch to a services, vice product, company. Who knows,

if you did all that you may actually build a user-base instead of the

current slave-base."

:-)

-Charlie