Wagner Lipnharski wrote:
[snip]
> There are two points of view, the first one is from the company
> visionary person, the president or owner, this guy invest into the
> future and he is able to sacrifice today to collect tomorrow. The second
> is from the sales people, they just *don't care* about the company's
> future, they can jump from one company to another as fast as you change
> your underware. In most cases (if not all) they only see their bank
> account numbers.

There are many presidents, CEOs, etc. who are _NOT_ visionary, who are
only interest in this month's or this quarter's P&L statement.

The company that allows today's poor student access to free/inexpensive
hardware and software may well be influencing tomorrow's purchasing
officer.  From a pragmatic perspective, the poor student probably
doesn't
have the means for purchasing the items any way ... especially on the
software side of the market.

I'm an old fart, and never ask for free samples, nor do I use pirated
software ... but if I were a student I most certainly would.

 - Nick -