Re: Hmmmmm
"In other words, it's already a fundamentally loss-making activity, with the loss currently foisted on the people at the bottom of the pile..."
Hello! Don't you people know ANYTHING about modern business strategy? That's called externalizing, and it's a crucial part of most successful corporate policies. Microsoft, to take the most glaring example, has made obscene fortunes by foisting the losses on its unfortunate users. (Well, they were unfortunate to be so dumb that they thought they could buy the cheapest software on the market and not pay in other ways - and so dumb they didn't even notice the other ways).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
