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From: kurt@fluke.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Piracy << WARNING: SEVERE FLAMES AHEAD >>
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Date: Thu, 17-Apr-86 11:49:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 17 11:49:52 1986
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1.  $100 is too much for a paint program.
2.  People who do not include the cost of software in their estimate of
    the cost of a computer system are deluding themselves.  A car without
    an engine is much less expensive than an otherwise similar car with
    one.  But you should not buy a car without an engine and then complain
    that the purchase price of the engine makes the car unaffordable.

    I personally have sold computer hardware at cost because we marked up
    the software.  IBM gives DOS away for the cost of the manual to sell
    its hardware.  Hardware and software are inextricably linked.