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Article #40225Re: Apple gets favorable ruling
From: Bruce Burger
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1989 02:16
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1989 02:16
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> Frankly, no. If I had already made millions of dollars on my software, > I would assume that the development costs had been covered and that > anything that I made over production costs (diskettes, shipping) was > clear profit. I would drop my retail price to cover production and > a small profit margin, knowing that my competitors could not match or > beat the price and still cover their (still outstanding) development > costs. > be the only producer of said software. Actually diskettes and shipping are very small portions of the costs for most software vendors. Major costs include documentation and packaging, marketing (which includes dealer relations, taking calls from customers about all sorts of things, advertising, etc.), and product support. Also profits have to fund future development, which often pays back several years later if at all.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!microsoft!bruceb From: bruceb@microsoft.UUCP (Bruce Burger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Apple gets favorable ruling Keywords: Apple vs. Microsoft Message-ID: <5032@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 14 Apr 89 02:16:48 GMT References: <6271@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1068@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <25056@mirror.UUCP> Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 15