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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!ruuinf!plato.phil.ruu.nl!freek
  3. From: freek@phil.ruu.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
  4. Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
  5. Message-ID: <freek.726396859@groucho.phil.ruu.nl>
  6. Sender: news@phil.ruu.nl
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: groucho.phil.ruu.nl
  8. Organization: Department of Philosophy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
  9. References: <C0E0Kr.34p@world.std.com> <C0EoyL.LG7@news.udel.edu> <72987@cup.portal.com> <C0FrCx.J9@news.udel.edu>
  10. Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:54:19 GMT
  11. Lines: 13
  12.  
  13. kurisuto@chopin.udel.edu (Sean J. Crist) writes:
  14. >A piece of
  15. >software costs the same amount to develop regardless of how many people
  16. >buy it.
  17.  
  18. A piece of software costs _less_ to develop if more people
  19. buy it, because in that case there are more willing beta
  20. testers for it.
  21.  
  22. Freek
  23. --
  24. Third theory of Phenomenal Dynamics:  The difference between
  25. a symbol and an object is quantitative, not qualitative.
  26.