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Subject: Re: And the real winner is...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:35:41 08/29/01

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On August 29, 2001 at 01:59:23, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 28, 2001 at 19:18:24, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>The idea is that programmers who earns more money should pay more in order to
>>participate.
>
>The whole part of 'does he earn anything' is so icy I specifically
>avoid it. If you don't earn much by selling your program then that
>is _your_ problem and does not make you less of an pro.
>
>>I think that in this case deciding that he needs to pay more 400$ as entry fee
>>is unfair.
>
>Nonsense. The amateurs dont earn ANYTHING and they ALSO have to pay.

Yes
but it is not fair to ask freom professional to lose more money
than the amatuer.

I have no problem if they pay more money then the amteurs
that is different than losing more money than the amatuers.

>
>>I think that a more fair method of deciding about entry fees should say that
>>programmers should pay 100$+  1% of the total money that they earned from
>>selling their program in the last year.
>
>And disclose their earnings? Not gona happen...

It is enough for me if they tell their earning only to the organizers.

Uri



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