�-�- Regarding: Royalties??? �-�-
                        �-�- Reply Requested by MaNiC �-�-

�-�-��-�-�-�-��-�-�-�-��-�-�- Here are your words �-�-��-�-�-�-��-�-�-�-��-�-�-
� High prices are due mostly to software pirating!  The rest of the fee is
� required to pay programmers and other employees for all the time they got pai
� for the development of the product.  If you want lower software prices in
� general, then you should help fight software piracy.
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�-�-��-�-�-�-��-�-�-�-��-�-�- This is my response �-�-��-�-�-�-��-�-�-�-��-�-�-

I think piracy is a bullshit coverup to make for a 1000% markup... I mean how
much did it take to make the copies of Visual Basic, say 1 dollar a copy to
the author (that's of course just a VERY rough estimiate), 2 bux for the
disks, and maybe 2 cents of power to copy the files onto the disks... Well
lets see that comes to $3.02 and we are charged $400 for it... Now unless my
calculator is broken, that $3.02 has been multiplied almost 150 times to get
to that $400... Buisness is buisness, but lets talk about extremes..
MaNiC

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