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- From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Sour grapes (was Re: @$#^@$%# 2.04!)
- Keywords: amiga 2.04 os commodore bashing stop
- Message-ID: <34569@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 23:48:29 GMT
- References: <27JUL199212420371@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> <22634@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <1992Aug2.021306.26148@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <mwm.1cw9@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <DGILBERT.92Aug5095638@aeshq.uucp>
- Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 24
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- dgilbert@aeshq.uucp (David Gilbert) writes:
- > Fact is, you get what you pay for. SysV upgrades are generally
- >$350--$400 depending on the CPU and vendor. What do you expect?
- >Another lonesome fact is that vendors make money on upgrades ---
- >that's how the industry works.
-
- In fact, since C= is mainly a hardware company, we don't in general
- make real money on software. You don't want to know how many man-years went
- into developing 2.04... I guarantee if we were a separate company selling
- the OS for a profit it would be more expensive (or we'd be broke). I'm sure
- all the sales companies sell it for more than the package costs to produce
- (physically), and make a profit for us, them, and the dealers on the physical
- package, but as I'm sure you know the package cost is much smaller than the
- work that went into developing the software.
-
- disclaimer: my own opinions, of course. Plus I'm not in a sales company,
- and don't know how much they actually charge.
- --
- "Rev on the redline, you're on your own; seems like a lifetime, but soon it's
- gone..." Foreigner
- -
- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
- {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup
- Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
-