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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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