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[Jon maddog Hall]

>> P.S. This is an extention of my well known talk "Stupid Vendor Tricks: Why
>> vendors do the weird and counter-intuitive things they do."

>Isn't that a simple answer?  Because they're marketing people who, by
>definitioon, are not logical. The think they must appear to be so much
>smarter than the rest of us, and therefore, do counter-intuitive
>things in order out-psychologize the dumb masses ;)

Careful.  I also have a talk "Stupid End User Tricks: Why customers are often
very definitely wrong" where a lot of customers see their own image in the
mirror.

md
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