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David: With all due respect... Your model is the basis of socialism. Give according to your ability, take according to your need. I am not sure if you are in the US, but in my (never) humble opinion, this is the same crap that has our ridiculous tax system in place. You make more, you pay more. Not just more based on a flat percentage, but a higher percentage at that! How is that fair? How does that encourage new ideas and achievement? It discourages achievement when you can look at someone who working less and being a less productive member of society, and they receive the same (if not more) benefits of society. I pay through the ass for my health insurance, have a 5K deductible to keep in "reasonable", and there are plenty of Americans who pay nothing for health insurance and go to the emergency room every time they have a damn hang nail. My insurance requires me to be more frugal (read: not reckless) with my health care and perceived need. My church/kids school is now underway to build a new building that we need. My plan would be to take the cost of the project, divide it by the number of families and that is the amount each family is responsible for raising. But of course, I am being hounded to contribute more and more and more. Will I get more benefit than other families, probably not. I am asked for more only because it is perceived that I have more. The argument is: I must not need the money as much. Pure poppy cock. I am tired of being made to feel guilty for achievement and the dumb masses (say that fast) feeling like they are entitled to something for nothing, ride on the back of MY hard work. Software pricing should be based on some model that makes sense. In my past example for IBM Comm utilities (CM1). I should pay 30K to support 1 stinking connection? Maybe a limit to the number of connections that can be configured might be a more fair way to price that software. some software makes sense to charge per seat, or per user. No model fits all. But the argument that you pay more because you can afford more is utterly ridiculous. Frankly, I do not care if the poorest nation can afford the newest drugs.... what incentive does that give the poorest nations to do what it takes (work, achievement, etc) to remove themselves from the poorest nations list? I haven't been this fired up since the thread about Ayn Rynd and Atlas Shrugged. Carl (I guess you can tell I am a libertarian) Carl J. Galgano EDI Consulting Services, Inc. 550 Kennesaw Avenue, Suite 800 Marietta, GA 30060 (770) 422-2995 - voice (419) 730-8212 - fax mailto:cgalgano@ediconsulting.com http://www.ediconsulting.com AS400 EDI, Networking, E-Commerce and Communications Consulting and Implementation http://www.icecreamovernight.com Premium Ice Cream Brands shipped Overnight FREE AS/400 Timesharing Service - http://www.ediconsulting.com/timeshare.html "You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know" - rw -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of David.X.Kahn@gsk.com Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 6:59 AM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: Tierred pricing (was Tiger tools...) Brad wrote: > I expected the answer you gave. :) I don't buy it, though. > It's the answer you would get from the seller, not the > buyer. Which leads to the fact that iSeries software is > overpriced to begin with. Overpriced it may be (or maybe not), but that does not necessarily follow from the pricing model. You have an analogous situation in the drugs industry. It costs a huge amount in R&D to bring a new drug to market. That investment must eventually be recouped or there would be no new drugs. The choice is between a flat price which would deprive people in poorer countries of the most advanced medicines or a differential system in which consumers in the richer nations pay more. Dave... "Achilles only had an Achilles' heel; I have a whole Achilles' body." - Woody Allen ======================================================= The opinions expressed in this communication are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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