Interesting word choice…

January 26, 2007 on 11:13 pm | In .NET Coding |

Some of the spam I get turns out to be pretty amusing… I just take a walk now and then through my spambox, just to see what sort of goo is being thrown around lately… Today I stumbled into something that really made me laugh. Here’s a quote from an ‘OEM-priced’ software company’s wonderful flyer explaning how they are able to offer such spectacular prices on good products:

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OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) software is exactly the same as retail software except there is no cardboard box. We offer the software for downloading only, it means that you do not receive a fancy package, a printed manual and license that actually aggregate the largest part of the retail price.

It’s easy to miss it in the list of stuff that isn’t included…. that’s right folks, they sell you software without a BULKY license! Why didn’t I think of that?! Sounds so… portable! With shipping costs sky high like they are these days, you can save a bundle by eliminating the middle men… but the real savings come when you take the manufacturers out of the equation too!