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- John Foust (syndesis@beta.inc.net) wrote:
- : In article <DwightG.4dgq@nesbbx.rain.COM>, DwightG@nesbbx.rain.COM (Dwight Gruber) says:
- : >As far as your wanting to sell one copy per machine is concerned, your
- : >point is well taken, but there are many small businesspersons out here (I
- : >raise my hand first) for whom a second, full-price copy of a piece of
- : >software--anyones, not just Lightwave--is financially unbearable.
- : >A reasonable solution might be to offer site licenses at a *reasonable*
- : >cost. You will not make as much money as you would if you sold full-price
- : >packages (versus piracy which gains you nothing) and I will not have to
- : >part with nearly as much money (the difference between being able to pay
- : >something, but not being aable to afford the full price), but maaybe we
- : >sill all come out a bit ahead.
- : >Btw, by "reasonable" I mean not more than $100.00 per machine.
- : > --Dwight
-
- : Let me get this straight: either Newtek sells site licenses at
- : the price you demand, or you'll pirate it?
-
- : Or to put it another way, you want a discount of up to 90%
- : ($100 / $995 retail) because you want to have two employees
- : working with LW, instead of one? You can "afford" one LW, but
- : not two?
-
- This might be a moot point if LW4.0 has out of the box distributed rendering
- for the Amiga, but I understand Dwight's position very well. We are a very
- small business - 2 of us. we have 3 amigas, all capable of running LW, but
- since we can't afford 3 copies, we're tied to rendering on one machine. It's
- just taken us 6 months to get together 3 mins of animation for a video we're
- working on. I don't need or want to use the modeler or layout interface on more
- than one machine at a time, just the ability to render on them all at the same
- time.
-
- It might not be a moot point, however, if LW4.0's distributed rendering
- requires the amigas to be networked using proprietory(sp) networking cards and
- software, since we can't afford the 1000 price tag for that kind of solution
- either.
-
- Gwynne.
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