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From: cy@dbase.A-T.COM (Cy Shuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: prices
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.171224.10880@dbase.A-T.COM>
Date: 26 Apr 91 17:12:24 GMT
References: <1991Apr20.210745.4915@athena.mit.edu> <1991Apr22.055054.7976@hawk.cs.ukans.edu>
Reply-To: cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster)
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In article <1991Apr22.055054.7976@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai) writes:
>>Solution: Software companies should lower prices, to increase their
>>total sales. Just like government taxes. Increasing taxes does not
>>always increase revenue. 
>
>I second that! Yes, these prices sorely tempt me to piracy.

It's really the ease of theft, and the improbability of detection,
not as much as the prices, I think. The price of a Mercedes doesn't
tempt me to piracy, but if you could drive one into your two-car
garage and hit command-D "Duplicate" and put the original back,
I'd think about it over the weekend.

It would still be wrong.

--Cy--
cy@dbase.a-t.com