Re: bundling is inherently unfair to consumers

["Lewis A. Mettler" <lmettler@lamlaw.com>]

Mitch,

I call stupid suggestions and ideas "stupid".

I also call perjury when I see it.

I also know the difference between arguments that only support the
vendor of a product or the promotion of a product and refuse to
acknowledge the very basic rights of consumers.

I also suggest that I am just about the only person on this list without
an agenda to promote a specific product by a particular vendor.  Or
somehow feels that they must argue in such a way to force the sale of a
particular product or force the use of a particular product.

I do apologize for being rather blunt.  But, I call everything as I see
it.

If you are going to make stupid suggestions in public about reasons why
consumers must buy your product, then "yes" you can expect to be
chastised for your effort. 

Mitch Stone wrote:
> 
> --- From a message sent by Eric M. Hopper on 12/6/99 11:37 AM ---
> 
> >       You know, I'm tired of being called stupid every time I don't
> >agree with you.
> 
> I've had a quick check through the list archives and found (not to my
> surprise) that Mr. Mettler has at one point or several questioned the
> mental acuity of nearly every regular participant on this list, and has
> done so in a particularly, brusque, distainful, insulting and degrading
> manner. He has single-handedly driven down the level of discourse in this
> venue to a point where it is personally becoming more of a burden then a
> benefit to subscribe. He is a tribute to the power of one individual to
> poison the well from which others would draw.
> 
> He apparently has no concept of the damage he does. He has not apologized
> to anyone (though he has been asked), and presumably will never, no
> matter how unforgivably he treats other people. 

Am I the one suggesting to consumers that they must part with their
money even though they know they do not want a product?

> I am tempted to conclude
> that this behavior has a clinical definition, but I really don't know
> much about these things. 

If you lie in court you get prosecuted for perjury.

> I know only that I am sick and tired of his
> pompous, condescending, self-important and coarsely contemptuous
> personality. He is the black hole of civility down which were are being
> sucked, and I don't appreciate it one bit.

Perhaps.  But I do represent the consumers and independant developers in
the industry and not just one particular product or company.

-- 
Lewis A. Mettler, Esq.(Attorney and Software Developer)
lmettler@LAMLaw.com
http://www.lamlaw.com/ (detailed review of the Microsoft antitrust
trial)