At 11:29 PM -0800 2/14/00, John A. Limpert wrote:
>on 2000-02-14 12:23, Tim May at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> * the desire for a profit almost always wins out over the desire to collect
>> customer information: if a business has a choice between collecting some
>> customer info or completing a sale, it will take the sale every time.
>> (Unless other factors, such as government requirements, intervene...)
>
>Don't underestimate the effects of bureaucracy and "policy". Corporations
>and their minions do not always behave in a rational fashion. Sometimes even
>waving money in front of their face isn't sufficient. Ask anybody who has
>dealt with DEC sales engineers.
I said "almost always." There are cases where a company has some policy
which interferes with its profitibility--the landscape is littered with the
corpses of such companies.
Which is the whole point.
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
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