Backbytes: How software companies are losing friends and alienating customers

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Far from trying to hold on to their customers, big software companies seem to be trying to wring them even harder

When a once-comfortable company suddenly faces a new competitive threat, it can go one of two ways: either it can respond by getting better at meeting customer demands, by cutting inflated prices, ...

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