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From: jank@ttidca.TTI.COM (Michael Jank)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Interactive and me - An open letter to ISC.
Message-ID: <18628@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 17 Jul 90 19:42:51 GMT
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I have the solution:  Software vendors should price their products such
that businesses could afford to purchase copies for each machine.  I have
been frustrated many times by vendors who will not sell site licenses.
Software is overpriced, has little resale value, and obsoletes itself so
fast it is painful to make any software purchases.  The real kick in the
teeth is that it is the distributers who are making all the money when the
programmers, the people who did the work, receive less than 5% of the
profits.  How much money do you think I could get for my slightly used
OS2 1.0 software development kit right now?  (Over a thousand bucks wasted
here.)  I think people want to be honest and do what is right but the
pricing structure is a tremendous disincentive to do so.