Re: [OT] Re: Toner refill

Klistvud wrote:
Not only in Spain, I'm afraid. Capitalism at its best.

Can't *anything* be done about it? I mean, the pushers have even
managed to circumvent the bidding rules that generally bind
government agencies -- by providing their lock-in-ware for free.

"Capitalism"? Public schools, public institutions, government agencies?
Sounds like government in action to me. Now, if all of these
institutions were not centralised and homogenized as state monopolies...
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John Hasler


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