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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: An issue for the entire Amiga Community.
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Date: 27 May 90 07:38:16 GMT
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In article <5755@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>In <136264@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) wrote
>a hilarious and frighteningly realistic story about the travails of trying to
>sell your software.
>
>Thanks, Chuck.  Very funny stuff, tho' kind of depressing...

Well, I wouldn't call it funny. It's the plain truth for a lot of developers.
In fact, it matches my personal story for about 99% of it. A-Talk III started
in a university dorm; was shipped for 2 years off university dorms; didn't
make any money for 3 years when all revenues were spent in "small" advertising;
we got ripped off a 200-piece shipment to England (a now known distributor 
scam) and other horror stories.  The 1% difference from the story is the end:
we were asked to sell out the product to OXXI, which had the money for 
advertising full page color, and had a distribution network installed. Since
then, although we make only a much smaller percentage of the sale price, we
are actually profitable and can use the A-Talk III profits to fund other 
developments.  Again, thanks to Chuck for writing the original article.
I'd hope that Chuck would expand on it and submit it to a magazine: I think
it would be kind of educational for a lot of people.

-- Marco
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