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pricing + apology
Dear Folks,
First let me start off by apologizing for the two personal responses that I sent out
recently. In both cases I meant to change the return address but instead changed the
Subject field. I can't prevent people from sending personal messages to me via this
mailing group (I certainly would prefer they be sent to iclone!ctm@unmvax.cs.unm.edu)
but I will try real hard not to respond to them here.
As for the objections to our proposed $700 price for a full blown runs everything under
the sun emulator, our intent is at that time to offer educational discounts and also to offer
crippled, application specific versions (in addtion, by then we will be selling through
distributors, which will boost our sales and help the NeXT community grow, but will result
in a lower profit per unit sold). Currently, Executor-MSW is application specific due to our
prioritizing of bug fixes. When we have the real thing out we hope to still have products
out that are in the current price range. Details remain to be worked out but it would be
something like a general emulator that *doesn't* run any of the top 25 applications for $100
or less with the idea that for more money you can be enabled to run more applications. I
can't make any promises because there are some pretty large companies concerned with
macintosh compatibility and the market forces are pretty overwhelming.
One final comment: since I'm not running the mailing list, I don't know just how many
people are on it so I really can't get a feel for whether I'm putting out too much information
(or just putting out too much verbiage with the information) . If you believe I am, or I'm not
send e-mail directly to me DO NOT POST TO THE MAILING GROUP. I'll try to listen to
what you say but of course there are bound to be conflicting views so even if you vote yea
or nea it may appear I'm ignoring you when in reality I'm just listening to other people.
--Cliff