Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:49:19 09/06/05
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On September 06, 2005 at 17:54:36, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 06, 2005 at 17:46:53, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On September 06, 2005 at 17:38:42, Bernardo Wesler wrote: >> >>>....I (according to American Marketing Association estimates)assure they would >>>sell ten more times than nowadays...... >> >>At (therefore) what is probably a considerable loss. >> >>Development costs are fixed and are purely a function of headcount. >> >>Manufacture and packaging are fairly negligible (pressing a CD is less than 50 >>cents). >> >>Technical support for each engine sold will still be the same, and is probably >>the broad majority of the cost [as an average]. > >If the price is only 10$ then it is logical to give no technical support unless >the customer pay additional money. What commercial product would you buy with no technical support? Have you ever brought home a software product and then had trouble getting it to work? I have. If it did not offer any technical support, I would try to make it so that it could not be sold in Washington state, and I would probably succeed.
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