[ale] OT: more info on where all the jobs are (going...)

[J.M. Taylor]

You can say what you want about M$ but you have to admire their marketing
savvy.  Did anyone see the Penn & Teller BullS**t! where they filled up
snazzily-labled bottles from a garden hose and sold them to people for
$7/bottle??  They filmed the people tasting the water and they were all
trying to sound knowledgable..."Oh, yes, I can really taste the difference
in this one!  This one is so very crisp!". :)

So I wanted to respond to the survey -- I have paid  for OS software but
oddly enough, it was for products to support non-OS software (Crossover
and Win4Lin).

I have also supported very expensive OS software packages, which sold me
on open source long before I realised there was an ideology war.  If I
can't fix it to meet my needs, why would I buy it???

Cheers,

jenn

Jim said:
> On Sunday 16 March 2003 01:25 pm, Greg wrote:
>> Folks buy bottled water because they are:
>> 1. Wanting something that they believe is not polluted.
>> 2. Too lazy to get a filter.
>> 3. Status
>
> All of which goes to the point: people will buy something they can get
> free if  that item is properly packaged and marketed. Hell, people once
> paid for pet  rocks. We all know that Microsoft has not succeeded
> through technical  innovation, but through packaging and marketing.
> Sure, their monopoly factors  into it, but they used marketing to create
> the monopoly.
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