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In article <kmqrhmINN7s4@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:

[ about the GPL, commercial s/w, etc ]
>
>If the purpose of charging for each copy is to recoup your costs, what
>happens if you sell more copies than you expected; do you stop charging or
>send your customers a refund for their share of the overage?  If not, what
>is your justification for keeping the overage?
>-- 
>Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
>

I could ask the same about TMC; how many CM-5's do you have to sell to
recover the development costs, which are probably a good chunk of the
machine's cost?  What if you don't sell enough - you take a loss on the
project.  Conversely, if you sell more, you won't give a rebate to
those customers, will you?

It seems to me that commercial s/w developers make the same judgement, only
the relative costs are different - 99% is up front rather than, say, 50%.

-- 
Nick Felisiak 						nick@spider.co.uk
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