[41468] in Cypherpunks
Re: Netscape rewards are an insult
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurent Demailly)
Sat Oct 14 12:26:16 1995
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 17:05:43 +0100
From: Laurent Demailly <dl@hplyot.obspm.fr>
To: fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
Cc: ail@all.net, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9510141153.AA16412@all.net>
Frederick B. Cohen writes:
> The idea that Netscape (like Microsoft) thinks they can get free
> testing services from all over the net by real experts just by offerring
> a tee shirt is down right offensive.
[...$25k...]
They always did that, without even giving away T-shirt since they
released the first beta version to world. As long as people enjoy
playing for free with a product and give feed back and see the program
improved... why would it stop ?
Personally, though I prefer free products (but ppl have to get some
money for a living....), I think it is not that bad an idea, and
I trust lot of people will continue to do it for the fun of it {As
long as the company is *really* listening to reports....}
dl
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