Thank you - more eloquent than I could manage by far !!
> From: Stephen Jendraszak <stevehj_at_mac.com>
>
> I dunno. On the one hand, I am not insensitive to the need for
> companies/people to alter the price of goods when people who cannot
> afford the goods literally NEED them... like food and medicine (AIDS
> mediation in Africa is a good example... companies actually charge more
> there that in some developed countries, although the need in Africa is
> great, and the price of their increase margins in lost human lives in
> immense. This is corporate irresponsibility.). However, we are talking
> about software here. The very fact that a person owns a computer, and a
> Newton... it puts this conversation on a whole different level. The fact
> that you have enough wealth to own a computer, and that the software
> that you want is a luxury, I think makes it unfair to ask for a sliding
> scale. Just my $.02.
>
> sj
Paul Nuernberger
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