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Message   RF Burns    ZED   Royalties???   January 30, 1996
 4:55 PM *   

Re: Royalties???

> > This doesn't yet begin to explain why CD-ROMs, which theoretically are
> > pirate-proof (at least until CD writers get cheap), are so damned expensive
> Why are CD-ROM's expensive, anyway? At least, for programs that
> have many diskettes (MS-Office, any large Operating System, etc),
> it was -said- to be -much- cheaper to put it all on one CD as opp-
> ossed to mass copying many diskettes. And yet, typically CD-ROM
> versions of a popular <hmmm... popular!> software are MORE expen-
> sive than the diskette counterparts! Hmmm... something doesn't add
> up here. Surely not....greed? ;)

Keep in mind it costs less than $2 to press a CD :)

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