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by Anonymous User on Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 07:28:11 AM PDT

...Far more likely as a company grows big, and gets a CEO and board of directors who care about "maximizing shareholder dividends", and thus, their hold on power/pay/prestige than they do providing a good product, or having satisfied customers and good service.

McAfee and Symantec are two larger examples of the Intuit scenario, and someone mentioned Digital River, who mainly just gobbles up other software companies and sells those products, coasting on minimal development necessary to keep a semblance of compatibility with newer operating systems.

There are a number of companies who do take pride in their software, they just don't seem to be as large. I'd like to see a large software company whose business is run like Costco's: I'd buy product from them any day.



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