Re: What is VMS?

On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:40:11 -0800, seasoned_geek wrote:

Nobody with the tiniest shred of ethics would even consider doing
business with Amazon.com, and now you have a shining example as to why.

Crap. Why? It's an open, free market...isn't that the American dream?

It's a third party seller using the Amazon shop. If it was in print,
Amazon would sell it at list price or below. No one is forced to pay that
price.

It would be interesting to see what happens if someone actually was dim
witted enough to order from Amazon.com since I would never fill such an
order.

Why would you? Someone is selling their used copy.

with ask.com
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-minimum-you-need-to-know-to-be-an-
openvms-application-developer-roland-hughes/1007784093

with google
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-minimum-you-need-to-know-to-be-an-
openvms-application-developer-roland-hughes/1007784093
and it actually shows the $90 price in the little snippet

So, they have old stock; presumably Amazon sold all theirs and you got
the royalties.

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