Re: OT Hot paper

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger wrote:
> Yes. The job of the company is to produce whatever the public, through
> it's dollar-votes, demands. If more people want cheap, disposable
> products (a preference not to be faulted), businesses should and will
> supply them instead of the higher-quality more durable versions.
But why cannot there be "niche" manufacturers, who will produce
more expensive, lasting products? Or, more relevant to us,
command-based rather than GUI-based software. It's the "one size
fits all" model of industry that bothers me, and I will agree
that manufacturers are as much its victims as the minority
consumers. Come to think of it, one could argue that the majority
consumers, who go for the cheap and disposable product, are
victims too: did they ever have experience with a dearer, lasting
product?

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Patricia M. Godfrey
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