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Lanny, I take your point that a for-profit enterprise needs to sell
its wares, not give them away, if it intends to stay in business.
 
Nevertheless, giving away product is a time-tested and (if done
well) successful way to build market share by building knowledge
about the product and enthusiasm for it among new users and
potential users.  Why else do grocery stores offer tasting samples?
Why do stores offer ``loss leaders?''
 
As to your .sig line, the days when the phone company could do
anything it wanted to do are long gone, if they don't want to lose
business to competitors.  Look around you.  Where I
live Bell Atlantic offers free or reduced cost installation and
equipment for DSL service and ``free'' caller ID boxes to build
business.  Those things  won't remain free very long, you can be sure,
but
right now the offers are good for business.
 
Cheers,
Don Tyson


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