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In article <1992Apr6.192248.15847@glv.uucp> jcelam@oops (James Clifton (Cliff)  
Elam) writes:
> 1> NeXT should sell the runtime stuff for $250 or less.
> 2> Developers should be able to distribute the run-time (a la' windows 
>    in the old days) for close to nothing.
> 3> The developer version cost is irrelevant - people were developing for
>    windows when the SDK cost 2K+.
> 
Um... Gee, I don't think $250 would cover the royalties that NeXT pays for  
using such things as:  Unix, NFS, Postscript, richtext, and others (only four I  
could think of at the moment, but I'm pretty sure we pay royalties for other  
things as well)

In other words, I don't think $250 would cover OUR costs.  We'd be selling it  
at a loss.  Not a good thing to do.

I bet we also will be paying royalties for Renderman (just thought of it)

As has been said before in this newsgroup, if you look at all the stuff that  
NeXT sells to EVERY NeXTStep user, a comparible package for ANY other computer  
would run well over $5,000.  I'm of the impression that the price we've set is  
extremely cheap for what you get.

DISCLAIMER:  These are my OPINIONS, not those of NeXT.  This post contains no  
facts (other than the fact that we pay royalties for some of the standards we  
use)
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