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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
If two vendors are competing for your business, and you award the contract to Vendor A, Vendor B lost the sale. Boeing vs. Airbus... Boeing lost the tanker contract to Airbus. This isn't a nebulous concept invented by the RIAA.
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No, Boeing did
not lose the sell, they just did not
gain the sell. Saying that they lost the sell because someone else out competed them for it is like saying I lost a dollar just because you found it and I didn't. I did not lose it, I just did not gain it. I realize this is semantics and we live in the age of the misnomer but I would like for words to have a real meaning, not just something made up to make people feel sorry for someone else.
I do not agree with piracy nor stealing but that has nothing to do with the meanings of these words. And yes I agree that many people have been "sold a bill of goods" about the term and accept the illusion of a "lost sell" as factual, but it is not a fact. It
is a
misrepresentation of facts, specifically for the "loser's" (word use sarcastically) gain of sympathy and if enough people accept the illusion as fact, it will eventually become, at least, a pseudo fact - somewhat like the pseudo fact, accepted by the general populace once, that the world was flat. That, acceptance, however, will
not change the true facts.
