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In article <1992Jan10.174220.25644@spider.co.uk> nick@spider.co.uk (Nick Felisiak) writes:
 > 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?
 >
 > 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 I suspect that Barry was getting at is _if_ your reasoning for
charging is _only_ to recoup costs, then [perhaps] that's all it should
be.(?)  Also, I doubt that TMC's reasoning for charging is _only_ to
recoup the costs of development.

			-jeff

Jeff Kellem
Internet: composer@Beyond.Dreams.ORG
      or  composer@chem.bu.edu