Author: KarinsDad
Date: 14:15:04 01/07/99
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On January 07, 1999 at 16:21:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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_... > >:) Wow!!! You have a real expensive house!
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