Ask HN: are soft lies in sales okay?

Re:Ask HN: are soft lies in sales okay? by mixmax on Monday June 08, 2009 @12:28PM (#647537)

I think this community is special in that regard. I feel the exact same way, and I'm sure a lot of other people here do as well. But the thing is that it works and it works well. Microsoft are doing incredibly well.

Apparently there are a lot of people out there who are easily convinced by lies, or marketing as some might want to call it.

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Re:Ask HN: are soft lies in sales okay? by sharpn on Monday June 08, 2009 @12:38PM (#647549)

But I'd suggest that the disappointment people felt with MS products was at least part of what spurred open office & ubuntu (for example) - and open source software certainly threatens MS's revenue stream.

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Re:Ask HN: are soft lies in sales okay? by mmelin on Monday June 08, 2009 @01:33PM (#647643)

... 20+ years later. Personally I couldn't live with doing business dishonestly, but you can't really say that it didn't work out well for Microsoft.

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Re:Ask HN: are soft lies in sales okay? by sharpn on Monday June 08, 2009 @02:56PM (#647780)

I agree - the point I was making was about damage to the long term franchise, which I guess an individual salesperson wouldn't care about.

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