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otherwise although it is a loophole I am pretty sure it is illegal. It would seem that this is illegal, but I've never heard of a law protecting one's right to be listed in a search engine. Perhaps, if this process requires you to be the owner, it qualifies as fraud?
If you want italics, use asterisks instead of 's. For example, *italic* produces italic . http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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The story goes: The huge printing presses of a major Chicago newspaper began malfunctioning on the Saturday before Christmas, putting all the revenue for advertising that was to appear in the Sunday paper in jeopardy. None of the technicians could track down the problem. Finally, a frantic call was made to the retired printer who had worked with these presses for over 40 years. “We’ll pay anything; just come in and f…
- Operations-critical knowledge should be documented - mitigate the "bus factor" (http://www.ask.com/wiki/Bus_factor)
- There are often-neglected big support advantages of buying from large suppliers with good support.
(ok, big corporations do take that into account, but for small startups, making sure that the buyer feels at ease not having such a case blow up in their faces is important, and same for buying mission-critical software, though having a disruptive/competitive-advantage generating app might be worth the risk)