Regarding: Royalties???
Request Reply: Appreciated

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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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Let's not forget the 17 people at $40,000.00 per year salary. Let's say it
took 1/2 year to complete...... $380,000 in salary alone. Now include the
cost of tech support mainly for those of you that don't read the manuals, and
what do you get? Seems like a bit more than $3.02 for a program, dosen't it?
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