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Article #459Re: Copywrongs
From: David Hayes
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1989 17:46
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1989 17:46
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In article <34181@grapevine.uucp> koreth (Steven Grimm) writes: >Uh, software is sold, isn't it? Perhaps your definition of what the market >will bear is different than mine, but it seems to me that if someone can make >money at something, the market can bear whatever he's selling. Well, *some* software is sold. The last estimate I heard, from ADAPSO, I believe, is that the small-computer world has 9 copies made from every legally sold copy. By those stats, it seems the market will bear about 10% of what software companies are currently charging. David Hayes School of Engineering Southern Methodist University merlin@smu.edu uunet!smu!merlin "Argue for your limitation, and, sure enough, they're yours." - Richard Bach
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ti-csl!pollux!smu!merlin From: merlin@smu.uucp (David Hayes) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Copywrongs Message-ID: <15885@pollux.UUCP> Date: 28 Aug 89 17:46:48 GMT References: <11143@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <8908182307.AA11856@nlp9> <12440@s.ms.uky.edu> <2574@trantor.harris-atd.com> <10512@claris.com> <2602@trantor.harris-atd.com> <34181@grapevine.uucp> Sender: news@pollux.UUCP Reply-To: merlin@smu.UUCP (David Hayes) Organization: Southern Methodist University, CSE Dept. Dallas, TX Lines: 13