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From: merlin@smu.uucp (David Hayes)
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Subject: Re: Copywrongs
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Date: 28 Aug 89 17:46:48 GMT
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In article <34181@grapevine.uucp> koreth (Steven Grimm) writes:
>Uh, software is sold, isn't it?  Perhaps your definition of what the market
>will bear is different than mine, but it seems to me that if someone can make
>money at something, the market can bear whatever he's selling.

	Well, *some* software is sold.  The last estimate I heard, from
ADAPSO, I believe, is that the small-computer world has 9 copies made
from every legally sold copy.  By those stats, it seems the market will
bear about 10% of what software companies are currently charging.

David Hayes	School of Engineering	Southern Methodist University
merlin@smu.edu	uunet!smu!merlin
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