Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca.wv.tek.com!pogo!bluneski From: bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Bob Luneski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: An issue for the entire Amiga Community. Message-ID: <9132@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> Date: 25 May 90 19:43:07 GMT References: <1990May17.001308.29541@csmil.umich.edu> <136089@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <11747@cbmvax.commodore.com> <136118@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1401@faatcrl.UUCP> Reply-To: bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Bob Luneski) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR. Lines: 36 In article <1401@faatcrl.UUCP> jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes: >Shareware isn't evil, the prices of most commerical products are, why >else would Sharware exist, or piracy for that matter? > >What's truely criminal is the profit margins of some of the applications >available today. > >In most every industry we have a drop in price as the manufacturer recovers >the initial costs for startup and development. But not software, each new >version brings with it a higher price tag. > >And there's no sane explanation for this maddness other than greed, >reprehensible, utterly shameless greed. > >Me, I'll support a Shareware product or directly marketed product over one >that has been defiled by a commerical publisher any day. They are the >true scum of our industry. > The only excuse for the above post is utterly shamless ignorence. You obviously don't even have a clue to the amount of work required to bring a commercial product to market. And after the dealer takes his cut, and the software distibutor takes his cut, and the software publisher takes his cut, and after packaging costs and marketing costs and product support costs why there's usually enough left over to buy a stick of gum. But then you're abviously an authority. ____________________________________________________________________________ Bob Luneski bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM The opinions expressed herein are my own and in no way reflect the opinions of Tektronix, Inc.