Yes, but realise that if you are not going to play by the rules of the GPL, then you should NOT use ANY GPLd software to speed up development or otherwise improve your code.
Untrue : we do regularly use gcc here to speed up development:)
Hey, this is not the same product ! You pay for the box and/or the brand !
All consumers get the same price for OEM whoever they are. and they all get the same price for retail too. That is fair.
To wit: imagine the "Preferred List" technique, where you and Mr. Jones receive a catalog. There is a product which normally lists for $700, but Mr. J's catalog has it for $500, where your catalog has it for $600. This is unfair. However, imagine being in an online auction for the same product. He bids $500, you bid $600. You win, AND you save money.
The only difference is that you feel superior in the auction method due to beating a number of people, whereas in the Preferred list method, you feel inferior due to being excluded from a perceived "gift".
The difference in the auction is that YOU choose the price you pay, whereas on the Preferred list, the SELLER chooses the price YOU pay.
Example:
I am proposed $700 for the product whereas Mr J is proposed $600. I would have bought for $600, I can't. It's unfair.
In an auction, Mr J offers $700 for the product, I am NOT willing to pay $700 : fair, everybody gets the same price.
An offer is fair as long as everybody gets the same price. In this sense, the car salesman is unfair.
I don't know for the US, but in most european countries, it will be very difficult to do targeted pricing in electronic shops : the displayed price must be the same for all customers. So if a proof can be provided that the web shop displayed a different price for two different viewers (all things being the same otherwise), it is going to get in deep trouble...
Nope, that the product makers paying telemarkets pay them based on the number of phone call. So, they estimate that half the population will go on the list. What they don't say is that they can call the people NOT on the list twice as much. Which will get those on the list faster.
Are we seeing
the type of doomsday scenario for the
workforce that this article implies?
What is the unemployment rate in the US ? How often do you hear that so-and-so is downsizing ?
I admit that part of the workforce will find new jobs in proximity service & customer relations. But I feel it's true that a LARGE portion of those will NOT find work.
I don't know for the US but here [in France], physical shops have to honor the lowest labeled price. e-shops are considered same as ordering on catalog and are protected from mislabeling unless they take the money.
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Had you learned to read, you would have seen that the page contains a link to the (former) home page.
And free speech certainly belongs to the american people only...
Hey, this is not the same product ! You pay for the box and/or the brand ! All consumers get the same price for OEM whoever they are. and they all get the same price for retail too. That is fair.
Example:
- I am proposed $700 for the product whereas Mr J is proposed $600. I would have bought for $600, I can't. It's unfair.
- In an auction, Mr J offers $700 for the product, I am NOT willing to pay $700 : fair, everybody gets the same price.
An offer is fair as long as everybody gets the same price. In this sense, the car salesman is unfair.I don't know for the US, but in most european countries, it will be very difficult to do targeted pricing in electronic shops : the displayed price must be the same for all customers. So if a proof can be provided that the web shop displayed a different price for two different viewers (all things being the same otherwise), it is going to get in deep trouble...
Nope, that the product makers paying telemarkets pay them based on the number of phone call. So, they estimate that half the population will go on the list. What they don't say is that they can call the people NOT on the list twice as much. Which will get those on the list faster.
I don't know for the US but here [in France], physical shops have to honor the lowest labeled price. e-shops are considered same as ordering on catalog and are protected from mislabeling unless they take the money.