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- From: hari@NeoSoft.com (Doug Andersen)
- Subject: Re: SigGraph, Chicago, and Unions
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:48:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.204801.819@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <16gpbvINN375@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> <1992Aug14.181846.14470@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug14.181846.14470@cmcl2.nyu.edu>, galanter@nyu.edu (Philip Galanter) writes:
- > Unions are hardly unique in their applying old technology business
- > practices to new technology businesses. But this is no more extortion
- > than the support fees computer companies charge to let you talk to them
- > about failures in their product...the response usually being some
- > combination of denial, your having to educate them, having them read to
- > you from a document that you originally cited to them, and eventually
- > being bumped up to someone who will tell you "fixed in the next release"
-
- The difference of course is that you are free to vote with your feet
- and simply go to another software or hardware vendor. The unions have
- rigged the system so that legally you cannot go to anyone else, at
- least not in that city. How would feel if you were legally required
- to use certain software in certain cities and states?
- --
- Doug Andersen
- hari@Sugar.NeoSoft.com
-