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In article <1992Nov20.175319.16955@ee.ubc.ca> markm@ee.ubc.ca (mark milligan) 
writes:
>
>As for the new Comercial version of Crisp ( are you listening Mr. Fox? ) I 
>was shocked, dismayed, hurt, insulted, and generaly pissed off to find that 
>my favorite editor had gone from Public Domain $0.00, free, zilch, nada to 
>comercial $300.00, overpriced, way out of my reach, sorry I can't afford it, 
>you won't sell many at that price.  I would love to get the new version of 
>Crisp but I can't afford It. ( sorry paul, you just lost a sale ).  They 
>would probably sell a boatload of them if the price was under a hundred bucks. 

Knowing Paul personally, I am not sure if he will ever reply to this 
article. I will also try not to extoll the virtues of Crisp as that will
go against Paul's philosophy of "Crisp's praise has to come from the 
people using it, not by the people selling it".

However, let me ask you a few questions and mention a few facts.

Fact: Yep, CRISP is fairly expensive. 

If you are using version 2.2e of Crisp, it is a shareware product with a 
$60.00 value. Did you ever send Paul the money. Do you think that this
may very well be the trend that forced the author to take it commercial.
Software developers have a family to support too :-)

BRIEF, before this temporary Borland promotion, was always sold at a price 
greater than $200.00. It is a fact that BRIEF has sold more in numbers than
every other editor combined under DOS. Is there really a specific reason that 
commercial version of Crisp should be at half the price of BRIEF, when in 
reality it outshines BRIEF in just about every respect. 

CRISP, the commercial version has been such a big success even with a hefty
price tag that it has surprised even the author himself. Maybe the commercial 
version does truly justify its price, maybe :-).

Any way, your input is appreciated, and I will pass it on to Paul. Maybe 
there should be a DOS-Like pricing with DOS-Like licensing. There has to
be a compromise somewhere :-)

Thanks
-- 
Rohit Mehrotra
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