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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: enforcement of Shareware
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Date: 16 Feb 88 00:26:22 GMT
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In another article kudla@pawl18.pawl.rpi.edu (self proclaimed pirate) writes:
> And I made money off my own "MacDoodle 1.3", which I took in about
> $50 for.

This is a joke right? What do you charge for your time? It took you less than
an hour to write MacDoodle? More clearly stated, you should probably said
"I got some money for 'MacDoodle 1.3'" because the word "made" implies that
more money came out of the result than went in. Take the hours you spent in
design, coding, testing, and debugging. Multiply this by $n where n is what
you could have made writing code for anyone else (my guess is that n ranges
from 5 to 175 depending on the code/employer) and then subtract this from
revenue (in this case $50) then say :

printf("I %s $%d from MacDoodle",(result < 0) ? "lost" : "made",result);


--Chuck McManis
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