Monday, November 04, 2002

Chris....Kay's Friend...if you're reading this email me with the information you have...she won't give it to me.  This isn't cool.  I'll give you money....mshellesen@hotmail.com comment [] 7:46:35 PM

In Taiwan, Microsoft faces yet another antitrust investigation, although it now appears that the company will settle this case. During the weekend, however, a Taiwan consumer group demanded that Microsoft cut its prices by 75 percent before any settlement talks commence   -Excuse Me?  This comes from the WinInfo Daily Update that can be found here.  They DEMAND, that Microsoft cut it's prices by 75%.  Whoa now bessy....Now it seems to me...and I may just be an old fashioned American Capitalist, but it seems to me that companies set prices and then the consumer decides whether that is a fair price and voices that opinion by chosing to by or not to buy the product.  I must just be old fashioned.  Since when did the lobbying groups of this world i.e. This consumer group and it's ilk, get this much power?  Who in their right thinking mind would let people who know NOTHING about the software industry, or the work that goes into these products DEMAND price cuts at the point of a thinly veiled GUN i.e. Government.  Do you know who else makes demands?  Terrorists but they do it openly with their weapons in plain view.  These people make demands hiding behind slogans and idealogical falacies about the rights of the consumer.  The only rights the consumer has are those of a producer and a trader.  If the price is too high you don't buy the software.  Beware world.  One day the men of intelligence will figure out your game and realize one thing.  They can don't need you.  They are the ones who know how to get things done.  They may not be able to run billion dollar companies without you in the begining but you won't be able to eat without them because you've left it to the "greedy capitalists, or the barons of industry" to know how to produce a loaf of bread or an automobile to get you to work.  comment [] 4:07:18 PM

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