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Re: [News] Windows Vista Motivates "Broken Window" Economics

__/ [ Linonut ] on Saturday 16 September 2006 18:25 \__

> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o'
> wisdom:
> 
>> Microsoft and the Broken Window Theory of Economics
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | While we don't usually report on anything Microsoft related (as it's
>> | outside PCBurn's perview) this tidbit was too good for me to pass up.
>> | Microsoft is reporting (at El Reg) that by releasing an operating system
>> | it will magically create $40 Billion dollars rather than simply suck
>> | money out of Europe. They've done this by positing a story somewhat
>> | similar to the theory of "broken window" economics.
>> | 
>> | [...]
>> | 
>> | In short form, a boy breaks a window and his father, the shop keeper,
>> | then has to have it replaced. It is a given to the people looking on
>> | the scene that this is good becuase it keeps the glazier employed in
>> | making windows.
>> `----
>>
>> http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=1788
> 
> Except, with Windows, it is the glazier breaking the windows himself, so
> he can collect some money for fixing it.

He quietly makes it breakage before it's sold. F**cking OneCare! The corrupt
folks who work at the garage do that as well.

Best wishes,

Roy

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