clsteve opened this issue on Nov 15, 2007 · 354 posts
svdl posted Sat, 17 November 2007 at 3:53 PM
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My point is that a sale at an affordable price is better than no sale at a premium one.
- Rick
Amen to that!
I remember Turbo Pascal 6. At a sale price of 220 Dutch guilders (around € 100) it just wasn't worth copying the installation media and xeroxing the 1500 pages of manual (at 10 cents per page). You'd save about € 20. For those € 20 extra you had the manual in the form of three books (not 1500 A4 sized separate pages), plus official support. No wonder that Turbo Pascal 6 didn't suffer from piracy. Borland sold 100,000s of copies, making a solid profit.
The pen is mightier than the sword. But if you literally want to have some impact, use a typewriter