DarkElegance opened this issue on Jul 22, 2003 ยท 60 posts
maclean posted Wed, 23 July 2003 at 2:48 PM
Phantast. You say 'I make a program and offer it for sale at $1,000,000. I sell no copies and 50 people warez it. I then claim to have lost $50,000,000 in sales! Yeah, right' I'm sorry, but you obviously have no clue at all about business practices. A business which sells virtual products doesn't do their accounts in terms of profit minus raw materials + labor, the way a car factory would. Nobody pirates Ford trucks. Software manufacturers have to think in terms of yearly income. How much does it cost us to do R & D, pay our staff, offices and overheads? How much income would we get selling X products at Y price? Then they arrive at a price for items based on the market and how much they expect to sell. So, if you total all that up, it's obvious that if they were selling twice as many of their product, the unit price would be lower. This is known as elementary arithmetic. Re caching - Caching-schmaching. All you need to do is press alt-f-a to save the web page c/w image. Who needs to go poking around in a cache? mac