Re: Re: Royalties???

> For a company that has been mass-producing, as with any other company that bu
> in quantity, the price is lowered.  Ever heard of the law of supply and deman
> That is why a store where I work can get a pack of gum for 1 cent, but even i
> we buy wholesale, we pay 4 or 5 cents.  Class?  Econ would suit you well.
> Linux is freeware, not a full-blown commercial product like most of what else
> is on the market.  The main reason it is now being distributed on CD has
> nothing to do with size or cost, it has to do with convenience.  Newer versio
                     ^^^^
The base installation is some 85 1.44 meg disks. Try that again.


>  RB#@> Finally, if the disks really DO cost $5, how many floppies would it
>  RB#@> take before it became more cost-effective to use the CD?  (assume the
>  RB#@> floppies cost 20 cents each, that's what, 25 floppies?)
> Most CD games, even if they don't require the use of the entire CD, have
> special features thrown in, features above and beyond their floppy
> counterparts.  For example, Battle Chess, on disk is 10 megs.  I bought it on
> CD, and it is somewhere around 50 megs, because it includes animation files,
> tutorials, etc.  It's becoming pretty apparent that you may be pretty good in

And you are supposed to pay extra for that junk?

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