[CoLoCo] Can anyone help refute this?

[Ringo Kamens]

Saying that companies selling support require or induce the sales of
computers that are designed to break is like saying that doctors need
to make people sick to stay in the business. People will get sick,
computers will break, and there need to be somebody there when it does
happen. While it's true that a flu epidemic or a new virus might boost
their income, they don't need catastrophic events to occur to make
money.

That's not the best way of putting it, but I thought the doctor
analogy wasn't bad.
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On Nov 22, 2007 12:38 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
> On 11/21/07, Ringo Kamens <2600denver at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do you still need a response, or did those articles work?
> > Comrade Ringo Kamens
>
> They are intersting but don't really speak to the central idea that
> the OS paid support model can only flourish if you create software
> needing a lot of support. I'd like to find what I read before or
> something similar. If you have any links, please share.
>
> Thanks,
> jim
>
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