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From: cabruen@athena.mit.edu (Charles Alan Bruen)
Subject: prices
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Date: Sat, 20 Apr 91 21:07:45 GMT
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Hello,

	I was just sitting here reading about the price of Excel going
from $395 to $495 for the new release. Now I am not one to complain very
much, I try to purchase all of the software I use, but not prices like
this encourage software piracy. A clasic costs approximately 1000, so
how many people can afford to pay 1/2 of the price of their compuetr for
one software package.

Solution: Software companies should lower prices, to increase their
total sales. Just like government taxes. Increasing taxes does not
always increase revenue. 

Just a thought


-Charles Bruen
 Aero/Astro MIT
 cabruen@athena.mit.edu