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- From: r_voisey@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (R Voisey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Why isn't everything PD ?y
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.225316.10335@csd.brispoly.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 22:53:16 GMT
- References: <2BkG0pj010n@st-andrews.ac.uk> <1992Aug17.141647.1@vxdesy.desy.de> <1992Aug18.095919.10153@waikato.ac.nz>
- Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England
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- In article <1992Aug18.095919.10153@waikato.ac.nz> mcg@waikato.ac.nz writes:
-
- >A, B, C are the cost of making the software for a company, whereas the only
- >expense incurred by, say John, is the electricity/coffee used in making the
- >prog.
- >
- > He neither incurrs the expense of supplying a disc or return postage (maybe
- >e-mail costs, but they are negligable), so the fee he sets is basically
- >, (excuse the pun) *pure* profit.
-
- An applications programmer might earn in the region of 20+ quid an hour..
- how many hours do you suppose John has taken to write Translator? Quite a
- few hundred I suspect.. in this time I don't doubt that John has the
- talent to have written something for the commercial market - a graphics
- translation utility for example.
-
- Just because John's net profit is almost equal to his gross profit doesn't
- imply that he's ripping people off - it just implies that he's theoretically
- onto a good thing. Of course he's not, because too many people share your
- views.
-
- Bob
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- Robert J. Voisey : r_voisey@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Janet)
- GUI coders do it Bob Voisey @ 2:252/106.0 (Fidonet)
- on the desktop Bob Voisey @ 100:104/106.0 (TurboNet)
-