This simply isn't true.
Microsoft is a monopoly company, and a huge monopoly (the biggest in the world?) at
that.
Microsoft could, on its current revenue alone, continue developing windows and its
other products well into the new millenia
without needing to make another cent.
It is unfair to expect that HJ compete using the same sort of business model, because
that business model isn't realistic in a closed market.
With regard to copy protection, They are selling a much higher priced product to a
much smaller market.
They are also selling to a market that often (and don't flame me over this because I'm
generalizing and I know it) consists of people who are from the poorer end of society
and can't afford the high price they charge.
There are two ways of dealing with not being able to afford to buy jaws. Seak funding,
or pirate the software and be done with it.
The first of these is complex and time consuming, and at least in Australia, far from
being guaranteed of success. The second is relatively simple, and the obscuirty of
international laws almost guarantees that nothing will come of it.
By using copy protection, HJ is hoping to push more people towards the first option,
by making the second option a lot of hard work also, they're evening up their chances
of a sale.
To expect no piracy of a product to occur is unrealistic, but with a good form of copy
protection, HJ is putting the piracy into the bane of the technical experts, people
who, by their profession, probably also have the money to purchase the software, and,
many of who would be developers themselves, and understand the costs involved in being
a developer.
I hope this clears things up a bit.
Aaron
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 03:14:51PM -0700, ab7hw wrote:
> Sorry your business ideas don't float. Microsoft does up dates and the cost is
> very small. Windows is a much more complex program. The prices Jenter-Joyce is
> charging is simply a example of bad business practices. Lotus gave up software
> protection devices when they found that there were a very small percentage of the
> people trying to pirate the software, the cost of the protection was costing a
> fortune. It all deals with Henter-Joyce bad business practices and a captive
> market. Dick and Scotty the Wonder Guide Dog.
>
> dave wrote:
>
> > To: Carlos Sanchez
> >
> > If HJ were to even double the price of the SMA, it would still be
> > a good bargain for customers. Please read the long message containing
> > my cost analysis of the price of JFW for NT to learn some of the
> > many things that go into the price.
> >
> > In my experience, it costs more to maintain a piece of software
> > over its life span than it costs to develop it in the first place,
> > I've been working with software since 1971.
> >
> > If a software company has to bundle many years worth of updates
> > and maintenance into the original selling price, they would price
> > themselves out of business. And if they don't come out with regular
> > updates, bug fixes, and general improvements, they will also go out
> > of business. Therefore, an ongoing maintenance fee is the fairest
> > way to make sure the customer can get updates and bug fixes, and also
> > to make sure the software company is fairly reimbursed for all the
> > work they put into the development and ongoing maintenance of the software.
> >
> > And to your other statement, no, I cannot agree that HJ is making more
> > money than ever before. Unless we see all of their accounting reports
> > going back for all the years, we just don't know that.
> >
> > At 11:06 AM 1/9/1999 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Well if this is the case, then why is it that HJ finds it necessary to raise
> > >the price of SMA's. You got to agree that HJ is making more money then ever
> > >before. Why the increase? Could it be that they are taking the
> > >incorporation of Magic into account. Well at any case my biggest gripe is
> > >that just when something gets good something else goes bad. It's like they
> > >can't keep everything working all together good. Overall it is the best but
> > >the little imperfections that are around with JFW's scripts are
> > >accumilatively annoying.
> > >
> > >Best regards,
> > >Carlos
> >
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> > Visit the jfw ml web page: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~nallan/jfw
>
>
>
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