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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Technology Liberation Front - Latest Comments in Checking Costs</title><link>http://tlf.disqus.com/</link><description>The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.</description><atom:link href="https://tlf.disqus.com/checking_costs/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:39:27 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Checking Costs</title><link>http://techliberation.com/2008/11/29/checking-costs/#comment-4076332</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;A corporation could literally not operate if it had to run its affairs according to the way that the federal government is forced to work.&lt;/i&gt;.  Incompetence is really an EEO employer and not limited to the government.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have you read the news lately?.  Currently the list of private companies that cannot operate because of self-serving management is exploding.  Regretfully, none of these executives seem to be being held accountable for running their corporations into the ground.  Few CEOs are even making an attempt to appear remorseful by giving up their so-called bonuses,  They are essentially milking their companies dry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is distressing is that that these executives, to maximize their compensation,have been oblivious to the fact that they are destroying our economic system.  I don't think the free-market is supposed to operate that way.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Steve R.</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:39:27 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Checking Costs</title><link>http://techliberation.com/2008/11/29/checking-costs/#comment-4061545</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Maybe the problem with selling software at a price between $1000 and $50,000 why open source software is so successful in the markets for development tools, web servers, and small server OSs.  Proprietary alternatives for Linux or Apache would have to cost more than $1000 but are clearly worth less than $50,000.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Don Marti</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:26:07 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>