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Subject: Re: Does someone who buys Rybka now, get more than if he waits?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 16:09:26 01/17/06

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On January 17, 2006 at 18:27:07, Jay Urbanski wrote:

>On January 17, 2006 at 15:48:16, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On January 17, 2006 at 15:06:25, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>Will such a person get more if he buys now? and still get exactly what will be
>>>released when finalyzed?
>>>Even if so, will it not be available later with easier set-up than now? (I'm not
>>>all that savy at setting things up myself, and I often downloaded programs only
>>>to find I couldn't access them).
>>>S.Taylor
>>
>>It's like buying a computer.
>>You will always get a better computer for the same money if you wait a while,
>>because compute speed rises exponentially.
>>
>>So, logically speaking, we should never buy a computer, because it will always
>>be a better buy in the future.
>>
>>Unless we want to be able to use one now.
>
>
>All true, but with the Rybka 1.2 case specifically you get the current beta(s)
>AND the 1.2 release, so there is no finanical benefit to wait - only the lost
>opportunity cost of not being able to use it between now and then.
>
>:)

This is correct assuming that you do not wait to later version than Rybka1.2

I do not know how much people wait for rybka1.2 in order to order it but I
already saw that there are 490 people in the group of rybka's customers.

Uri



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