But, really, that's another way of saying, people will steal whatever they want, and your option is to either reduce your business by going along with it, or go out of business. That's not how a free market is supposed to work.

The same applied to Napster. There's no right in the Constitution to be able to get digital content any time and anywhere and any way you want, for whatever price you feel like paying. Napster was created to make a butt load of money for the people who started it, off the backs of the people who created the content, and it got big because people used it because they could get the content for free, instead of actually paying for it. They took away the rights of the creators to control their product by force, not by valid market economics.

The thing is, none of you guys would accept this type of pressure on your business as fair market economics, as none of the rest of the world would on theirs. But everyone just assumes that any failure of the digital content industry to back down from any sort of control over their own product is just a sign that they are dinosaurs and need to be set straight.

By this sort of logic, customers of yours who talk you into giving them plans for systems they say they will buy, who then just take the plans somewhere else and get a better deal, or who just contest the price once the job is done and don't pay up in full because they know you don't have the money to take them all to court, would be just demonstrating to you that you are behind the times, and that people will get their automation systems how they want it, for the price they want it.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander, as they say. Well, no one actually says that anymore probably, but the lesson is valid.