[CoLoCo] Can anyone help refute this?

[Dave Vanderploeg]

Where do the insurance companies fit in to that analogy? :)

Dave (mobile)

On Nov 21, 2007, at 10:43 PM, "Ringo Kamens" <2600denver at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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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