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In article <r0_nkbg@lynx.unm.edu>, jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth) writes:

>Besides, most commerical software seems to be way over-priced for their per-
>formance.  Look at many games.  I've seen Gunship 2000 (if I remember the
>title correctly) that was $50 when it first came out.  It's now on the <$10
>shelf at several software stores.  It wasn't worth $50 since it had cheesy
>graphis and sound, but it is worth $10.
>

I have always said that the big fault in commercial software distribution is
the lack of someplace to try it out. When I first started in computers, the
University was looking very strongly at a software package that sold for
$4000.00 with any modifications at $400/day plus $25 per change, plus
expenses. Fortunately, I found another University that had laid out the
original $4000 plus $5000 in customization expenses only to find out it STILL
wasn't suitable. They had removed it from the computers and stored the
original disks and were willing to loan me them for one week ( the licensing
agreement would not permit the sale or distribution of the package
second-hand) so that I could try it for myself. No offense to the writers, but
it was garbage as far as our needs were concerned. If I had not found the
other University or they had not been willing to loan the originals for a
week, the only way we could find out that this program which was heavily
promoted, and which a number of customers had spoken highly of, would not suit
our purposes would have been to buy it. We bought another package for "only"
$395 baed on its demo software, and it would have been excellent except that
one field needed to be 4 characters in length rather than the two they had
provided. A Minor change, right? Wrong. The company was UNWILLING to do ANY
modification or customization at any price. Yet it was unusable for us because
of that silly thing, and its purchase could have made me ( having recommended
it ) look really bad if it were not for the fact that I was new to computers
at the time.

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just that!         DAo4@NS1.CC.LEHIGH.EDU      (Don)