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[Ken said]
> > I don't understand the "we'll spend zillions of dollars upgrading
> > our hardware every 6 months, but we won't spend a dime to upgrade
> > the software that we bought 15 years ago" mentality.

Well, the "over time" thing doesn't exactly fit (or maybe it does to them),
but it's like having to buy an OS for the computer.  That computer isn't
going to do anything without an OS--it's not even going to be running
software of any type.  So basically the argument goes, "It's like buying a
car and having to purchase the engine separately."

Which argument actually does make sense to an extent.

The rest I just blame on our economic system, which hasn't made sense since
the gold standard was abandoned.  There's simply not enough money to get
everything done, moreso now than back then.  And when the EX-head of The
Fed says something and the market tumbles, it's incontravertible proof that
the system is not founded on actual performance, but on opinion, 
speculation, and expectation rather than any sensible metric.  Had someone
not opened their mouth voicing concerns about something that may or may not
have happened, there wouldn't have -been- a recent plummet on every market
index.  It's a total reversal of logical causality.

It's all in their heads, as far as large-scale economics goes.

But at the corporate spending level, which is a microcosm of that, things
act differently.  A CFO somewhere goes, "We need to cut costs...-we- are
still bound to fiscal 'realities' even if the government isn't.  It's cut
costs, or go under."  And as an intangible, companies not used to dealing
with intangibles probably view software as a first place to cut those
costs.

I wonder how publishers and the like operate with regards to software,
actually.  Come to that, what -really- makes me wonder is whether the RIAA
or music publishers have any pirated software on their computers. *cackle*
Oh, the irony would be sweet if they did.  Not saying they do...it would
just be "interesting" if they did.

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