>>>>>Funny way they spell "bribed" nowadays. Looks almost like "insensitized" crossed with "unsanitized".
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>>>LOL, I'm happy with incentivised. Not so much an accusation of impropriety as an observation that "incentivised" and "neutral" are not natural bedmates.
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>>PC is a pollution of the language. How is "incentive" different from "bribe"? By not calling a spade a spade.
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>I don't usually disagree with you but I do here. An incentive is a good and beneficial thing, something we all respond to, and a bribe is not.

If you offer an incentive to someone who is to choose between your warez and others, and is to have any semblance of being independent and unbiased... remember how we came to this:

>>>Surely you are not suggesting a disassociation between tools and results. If I wanted to cure cancer I wouldn't start with a Luke Skywalker light saber.

>>You might if you were an incentivized appointee of the light saber vendor and there was no penalty for being wrong. ;-)

...then it still comes down to a bribe, and among the lowest kinds. You aren't even bribing the guy with your own money, you're bribing a worker with the money you'll get from his company, because the amount of the bribe is included in the price. This "incentive" to push the sales of junk is among the worst things that kill the free market - because then it's not the quality that wins, but it's who can wring the dirtiest deal with the retail to occupy their shelves. Remember the story how MS-DOS pushed DR-DOS out of the market.