Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!orsvax1!pyrnj!caip!daemon From: local-info-amiga-request@ics.UCI.EDU Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: Piracy << WARNING: SEVERE FLAMES AHEAD >> Message-ID: <1998@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Tue, 22-Apr-86 12:39:11 EST Article-I.D.: caip.1998 Posted: Tue Apr 22 12:39:11 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 24-Apr-86 00:01:15 EST Sender: daemon@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 12 From: Kurt Guntheroth 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.