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Subject: What were you thinking?

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 09:31:02 01/07/99

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>Nobody is going to do that.  To break even, you'd have to sell at least
>one million copies at over 100 dollars per copy, just to recover your
>development and distribution costs.  And no program sells one million
>copies.  IE the last time I looked I found well over 500,000 different
>IP address/users that had downloaded crafty (for free, of course) over a
>3 year period.  That would barely get back 1/2 of that one billion dollars
>assuming I had been charging 100 bucks per copy...

Robert, Robert, Robert,

We have to teach you somethings about finances.

You should have sold Crafty for $1 a copy. Even if only half of the users had
purchased it, you could have paid off your house by now.

:) :) ;)

KarinsDad



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