They do NOT make your life easier/better. On the contrary, they make =

your life worse.=20

----- Original Message -----=20

From: Ed Leafe=20

To: ProFox Email List=20

Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 9:33 AM

Subject: Re: Dabo 64-bit? (was RE: Vulcan.NET)

On Mar 6, 2009, at 11:22 AM, MB Software Solutions General Account =20

wrote:

> On a serious note though, if MonkeyBoy Ballmer called you and said =20

> "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?"

Provide true value to customers, where people *want* to buy your =20

products. The reason Word and Excel became such important products is =20

that they made life easier for their users, and that was worth paying =20

money for.

How does Vista or XP or Win7 make your life easier than the previous =20

version? How about the latest Office versus the previous Office? Is it =20

worth the cost? Or do you feel compelled to pay for the upgrade =20

because the old version will be rendered incompatible or insecure?

-- Ed Leafe

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