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- From: mellon@ncd.com (Ted Lemon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
- Message-ID: <MELLON.92Dec28125417@pepper.ncd.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 20:54:17 GMT
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- In-reply-to: bobert@informix.com's message of 23 Dec 92 21:42:54 GMT
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- >This only works, though, if a company expects to sell so many "educational"
- >versions of a program that it can afford the costs of a separate version.
-
- Educational, schmeducational. Try non-business-sponsored. Only
- when you're working at a company to which a <$500 price tag is noise
- do prices like $295 for a spreadsheet or a wordprocessor make sense.
- Products like MacInTax (at ~$80 for a State+US upgrade) are priced so
- that somebody like me is likely to shrug at the cost, but I'd think
- very, very hard before buying something like Excel, even though it is
- a fine spreadsheet program.
-
- _MelloN_
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