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- In article <Norman-070295135544@red_knight.msfc.nasa.gov>, Norman@eisner.decus.org (Richard) says:
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- >100 * $100 = 10K. 1000 * $100 = 100K. Yep, I'd call that greedy, but
- >understandable if one is trying to make a living off of one plug-in per/yr.
- >I won't even talk about what softimage or wavefront or alias would charge.
- >Now that is greedy. ;-)
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- Oh, come on. Greedy? Typical Internet blather. Oh, you're posting
- from a government agency, I understand. :-) Must I really give my
- Little Red Hen speech again? Exactly how much do you think it costs
- to run a business, to develop a product pretty enough and professional
- enough to satisfy you, to advertise, to produce that advertising, to
- answer the phone for pre- and post-sales? For starters, if a product
- sells 1,000 units, it's rare for all of them to be sold directly.
- Creative Computers probably wants to buy it for $40, so :
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- 800 x 40 = 32,000, 200 x 100 = 20,000, total $52K
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- Wow, $52K a year, gross? Greedy? Minus the cost of the box,
- disk, rent, shipping, other overhead, salaries, amortizing the cost of
- the time of development, not to mention the hypothetical 12
- months it might take to sell those 1,000 copies, not to
- mention any investment in the company in order to survive
- the *next* year?
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