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From: barber@jazz.concert.net (Scott Barber)
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Subject: Re: JR-Comm 1.02 ANSI bugfix patch/.
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Date: 17 Apr 91 19:07:18 GMT
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>>
>>  Sorry, but $30 does not buy you unlimited disks in the mail.  You will
> 
>Oh come on now!  You expect people to pay $30 bucks, and not send them a .39
>cent disk,a .19 cent mailer, and .50 postage?  Yeah, I guess you'll only be
>profiting $29 rather than $30.
> 
>Yes we all know how much time it took you to make it, and we all know how
>great it is, but at least have the respect for the customer.
> 
>Phil Dietz
> 
>ps. oh yeah.  How many versions are you going to make?  As long as you
>make less than 30 you'll still come out on top!

It's a bit unclear to me why he'd make any more than one, if he was
expected to give them all away to people who had bought an early
version.  You may not have made it to Life 101 yet, kid, but there is
more to the cost of a product than the raw materials.  And time that
could be spent sucking up to some corporate marketing VP for the
big bucks is pretty valuable to programmers who choose to spend it
selling directly to appreciative users.

Just a hunch, but what does everybody bet that young Philip isn't
working his way through college?


Scott Barber