Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:18:45 01/07/99
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On January 07, 1999 at 17:15:04, KarinsDad wrote: >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! No... but logic says I'd have to pay all production costs for the program (1 billion dollars, remember) _before_ I start paying off my house. :)
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