Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!faatcrl!jprad From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: An issue for the entire Amiga Community. Message-ID: <1407@faatcrl.UUCP> Date: 27 May 90 18:24:05 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> <9132@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> Organization: FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City NJ Lines: 25 bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Bob Luneski) writes: >The only excuse for the above post is utterly shamless ignorence. Ignorance? Maybe. But, when did it become a crime? And, although I may be gulity of responding to a knee-jerk comment in a like manner, as can anyone, it certainly doesn't give you the right to bring it down to the personal level. Especially since you don't even know me. >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. The "work" required to create a product is several orders of magnitude greater than that needed to package and distribute it. The problem is that the "cut" is far too large in proportion to their effort. >But then you're abviously an authority. Assumptions are a dangerous thing. -jack-