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- From: chan@pyramid.unr.edu (Kaho Chan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Free Commercial Software
- Message-ID: <4464@equinox.unr.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 00:40:20 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.161020.3894@cs.ruu.nl>
- Sender: news@equinox.unr.edu
- Reply-To: chan@pyramid.unr.edu (Kaho Chan)
- Organization: University of Nevada, Reno
- Lines: 44
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- In article <1992Sep9.161020.3894@cs.ruu.nl> avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl (Annius Groenink) writes:
- >
- >
- >New idea?
- >
- >
- >Commercial software today is very expensive for the sole reason that
- >once a couple of people have bought a program it is just copied over
- >the rest of the world. My solution is this one:
- >
- > Make commercial software very cheap (10 dollars or sth) and get
- >funding from e.g. Pepsi. Surely on the Falcon it must be possible to
- >have your word processor open with an impressive colourful flying
- >bottle of 'Vidal Sassoon'? Sorry, I have to wash and go now.
- >
- That's an interesting idea, but there are flaws to this.
- For one: It would be too expensive for non-computer companies
- to support software.
- 2: Your monitor would look like a tv (with commercials)
- 3: It's not the same (like a billboard, actual sounds/visual...)
-
- I think that the idea of shareware is better or a scheme like
- that brought on by the authors of Freeze Dried Terminal (where
- the authors give $5 to each $20 they receive from a user to the
- distributor).
-
- Piracy is a problem...
-
- >--
- >________________________________________________________
- > Annius Groenink|undergraduate student
- >Laan van Borgele 24|maths/computer science at the
- > 7415 DJ Deventer|University of Utrecht, Holland.
-
- Solution: ???
-
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