That $xx.xx9 price for gas in the US dates back to when gas price wars were sending every corner gas station into Chapter #7. The theory was that people wouldn't realize that the price was 1/10 cent less than the next station. In practice, it works almost as well as selling products at $xx.99, with people reading the product price as xx, and not xx + 1.
If, hypothetically, the Justice Department decided not to break up microsoft, but, instead, all software that they have released since, say, 1995, has to be released under the GPL, does anybody else think that their lawyers wouldn't find a way to circumvent the GPL?
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That $xx.xx9 price for gas in the US dates back to when gas price wars were sending every corner gas station into Chapter #7. The theory was that people wouldn't realize that the price was 1/10 cent less than the next station. In practice, it works almost as well as selling products at $xx.99, with people reading the product price as
xx, and not xx + 1.
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