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In article <8300@stiatl.UUCP> meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes:

   1) If I release good, quality software, that meets a real need, that doesn't
   need lots of support (I *said* quality*), with good documentation, then
   why on earth would people buy it if they could get it free?

   2) A lot of other people, such as 103% of all the MIS-heads in the world,
   are going to lump it in with all that "public domain bulletin board stuff"-
   useless garbage and probably full of viruses, or at least nasty bugs (their
   perceptions, not mine). They would summarily have someone on their staff
   shot who even LET the stuff in the door.

It seems to me that there's a bit of a contradiction lurking here - first Miles
says "why buy it if you can get it for free?" nad then says that there are lots
of people ("MIS-heads") who won't use anything they don't have to pay for.

The obvious resolution for this is to advertise the program at the going rates
(with different prices for different CPUs, of course) in the MIS magazines, and
let people copy it if they care to.  I think you'd be suprised how many people
will pay for it just so that the MIS-heads are happy.

@alex
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