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From: gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Software (and other kinds of) copying
Summary: $50 Ok $500 no way!
Keywords: technology changes things
Message-ID: <459@picuxa.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 88 13:01:59 GMT
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In article <878@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>, singer@ll-xn.UUCP writes:
> In article <2519@im4u.UUCP>, speegle@im4u.UUCP (Greg Speegle) writes:
> 
> I just thought I post what it cost me to produce a copy of the FoReM BBS 
> system:
> 
>		(some itemized cost stuff deleted)                    
> Now, this is only $15.  Add to this, promotional materials, cost
> of support bbs, cost of advertising, cost of returning phone calls...
> 
> Now, subtract that from the $24-$27 that distributors pay me for it
> and you can see that I'm not getting rich, especially when you consider
> how many paying customers there are for bbs software (hint: not many).





I don't think that $50 or $100 is too much to pay for (good) software.  But when
many companies charge $300 + for things like spreadsheets, that's where I
draw the line.   How can a company justify selling a piece of software for
exhorbitant amounts of money, when another company can sell a similar piece,
often with more features, for less (and even then make a hefty profit)?.

Don't bother to send me any mail regarding this, the questions posed are
rehetorical, and I have no intention of arguing my point.  Just wanted to
vent some steam :-).

Greg Pasquariello