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- From: Ronald@noblehouse.xs4all.nl (Ronald van Eijck)
- Subject: Re: Registrated developer, myth or reality?
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- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 07:32:06 CET
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- In article <4gqi0h$19b@klein.iguide.com> jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow) writes:
- >
- > Which costs you more, no information or BIX's $13/month plus $1/hour telnet
- > access with maybe 5-10 minutes per day connect time? If no information costs you
- > more you know what I am on about. (What you get for free is generally worth
- > precisely what you paid for it, too.)
- >
- > {^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
-
- For europe you can add the cost for your local IP and phonecharges which
- is probably about the same or a little more then the costs for BIX. This
- means that support trough internet will cost us say US$ 20/Month and
- BIX would add another US$17. This is a price difference of about US$200
- a year. Not much for a company but very much for every private developer
- out there. Not to forget that the Internet account they have gives them
- a lot of other things they frequently use while the 200/year for BIX
- is just a channel to devsupport.
-
- I also doubt that developer support on BIX would be up and running
- as you say, even though the environment would work the developer
- material that Olaf and others are working on would be just as far
- as it is now, not done. Its not the medium that takes time, its the
- copyright issues, lots of tapes that have to be screened etc. etc. etc.
- AT also has the website running, mailing lists setup, ftp servers
- ready etc. but they don't open to the public until they have some
- stuff sorted out. Legal matters always take time.
-
- With the US$200 a year price increase you will loose most of the
- private developers which means less good shareware programs and
- less paying developers in the program. Since the price for a
- developer program for 1000 developers is not that much more then
- a program for 100 developers scaring of lots of them means that
- about the same money has to come from less people which increases
- the annual fee which decreases the number of developers etc. etc.
-
- If AT wants lots of developers, both commercial and PD/Shareware
- authors, and I think they want that, they have to supply good
- support for a low price. We're not asking for free support, but
- we're not asking US 200 just for the carrier either.
-
- C'ya,
-
- --
- * Ronald van Eijck
- *
- * If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear
- * the result of a hundred battles. (Sun Tzu)
-