Re: Royalties???

> 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..

You forgot to mention the THOUSANDS of labour hours it took to create the
program in the first place. There isn't just 1 person working on the project,
there were probably 50-100 people on this one project. So, lets say that the
project took 1 year to complete, and let's say the average salary for these
people is 25,000 (some will be higher, and some will be lower). That's 2.5
million dollars spent to get this project off the ground. How the HELL is a
company supposed to recoup that by chargin 3.02$ per copy???? Now you see why
VB is 400$.

p.s. you also forgot the printing cost of the manuals. That alone was
probably 100k