tyd2 opened this issue on Mar 14, 2005 ยท 92 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Tue, 15 March 2005 at 12:33 AM
False: All what the posters received was the same old corporate spin.
Read the through the thread referenced in my post above, if you like.
False: 40% is not "slightly" higher.
In European terms: oh, yes it most certainly is.
Try comparing the price of gasoline across the pond.
False: Like I said, the terrirory has "not" been covered at all.
RE: the above thread again. And if you don't like that one, then there are plenty of others.
False: Noone wants CL to loose money. What people want is an honest explanation. BTW, whats wrong with "Fairness" ?
Demanding that CL sell its product at a loss is demanding that they lose money. And that's an honest explanation.
What's wrong with "fairness" is that it has no bearing on reality.
It's not fair that someone else has a billion dollars, and that I don't. It's not fair that I wasn't born into this world looking like Mel Gibson. It's not fair that someone else can play football better than I can.
The concept of "fairness", as a principle of life -- is worthless.
Enforced "fairness" as an ideology has been tried already. It killed a lot of people along the way to creating a "worker's paradise".
All such attempts are doomed to end in abysmal failure.
Life just isn't fair.
And that's what's wrong with "fairness".
To be honest, discussions like these give me the impression that a few members here constantly confuse a buisiness relationship with fandom.
Curious Labs is a corporation that sells software.
Even though this software seems to have a big impact on many members lives, they are just that: A buisiness entity.
That's it. CL is a business entity.
In other words, they need to make money in order to stay in business.
And, hopefully, to grow.
In contrary to what some members may seem to think, this is not a commie conspiration to drive an honest hard working American buisiness out of the market. (LOL)
Hmmmmmm. The only place that I've seen any suggestions regarding a "Commie conspiracy" were made above.
Yes....they are an "honest, hard-working American business".
And they have to sell their product in such a way as to achieve a reasonable return on it.