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- From: frain@cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: "official" FSF position on apple
- Date: 15 Sep 92 15:18:27 GMT
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
-
- > They charge $2000 for a computer that costs $400 to make. It sounds
- > like they make a lot more money on their hardware than software.
-
- This is only blatantly obvious, since every computer manufacturing
- company in the world does it.
-
- Sure, once you have the schematics and the parts list, the machine is
- actually quite cheap. But a lot of research and development goes into
- getting these two things.
-
- Let's not forget to mention that the consumer also has to pay for the
- marketing of the product, and probably a half-dozen other things I'm
- forgetting to mention.
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