Re: Ada vendors and the art of selling used cars

["Gerhard Häring" <g.haering@___skynamics.com.invalid>]

McDoobie wrote:
> In article <3b7fdb8a_2@news3.prserv.net>, "Andrzej Lewandowski"
> <lewandoREMOVE@attglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ada vendors,
>>
>>Could you please publish price list of your products?

<me-too>Yes, please!</me-too>

> [...]
> I suspect the reason they wont list the prices is because it would
> probably take a real good con-artist salesman to get me to even consider
> paying what thier asking. It gives me the  impression that they're hiding
> something.


(In particular, all the GPL-but-alternative-licensing-available 
companies  don't seem to publish prices. ACT, Cygnus/Redhat, ...) I did 
never bother to ask in such cases, because if the price isn't public, 
I'm instantly turned off. If they won't say, I'm sure it costs way too much.

Gerhard
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