Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:21:25 01/07/99
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On January 07, 1999 at 12:31:02, KarinsDad wrote: > >> >>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 Not if I had spent $1,000,000,000 developing it. I would still be just about $999,500,000.00 _short_... :)
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