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amedina1-Visitor
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July 29, 2004
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RE: sigh

  • July 29, 2004
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hey did you pay enough? you need at least ten gazillion bucs to get
started in learning their software.

I got an idea for them.. church. PTC think of your business as church.
Get us in for free! then at the end of the day ask us for money. give us
a period of sunday school so we get all messed up in the head and actually
buy the software and use it.. thus weaving it into the the very base of
our product. Then when we try to move to other software it will be
impossible. And your numbers of users will grow huge.

just watchout for sellsmen who abuse the people in sunday school. 🙂

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    unknown11-Visitor
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    July 29, 2004
    Hey this guys has been watching to much of the DNC this week
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    Anonymous
    July 29, 2004
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    In Santa Cruz, Calif., where I live, one restaurant did make that move,
    they just asked customers to give as much as they thought the meal was
    worth.

    Well, people did give money, they didn't just walk out, but on the whole
    they valued the meal for less than it cost the restaurant to produce it.
    So the restaurant went back to the good old-fashioned prices on the
    menu.

    I'd expect that would happen with most any software, or any product in
    general. If you were asked to pay just what you thought it was worth,
    you probably wouldn't pay the cost of producing the thing, you'd pay
    less.

    Funny how we mostly think other people's prices are high, but we usually
    think the price for whatever we make is more reasonable, because we know
    more about the actual costs. We don't know that much about the costs of
    other people's products, so we think they should sell for less. There
    are plenty of costs in the restaurant business, why so many of them go
    out of business pretty soon, but the customers usually don't know all
    those costs.

    Peter Nurkse
    Sun Microsystems
    peter.nurkse@sun.com

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    > Hallelujah! Do I hear an Amen?
    > Friend... Is your file saved?
    >
    > <grin>
    >
    > I recently read an article about a restaurant that has no prices on the
    > menus.
    > And they don't have a check-out person or cash register.
    > They only ask that you leave as much money as you feel the meal was
    > worth.
    > Could it work for PTC? (when porcine achieve lighter than air status)
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