there *are* effects of scale. a similar tool (to PS) would cost tens or hundreds of kilo$ if adobe had a hundred customers in the world. that's what our product used to sell at my previous job. i think the price is probably reasonable, however, the business model is flawed. enforcing and bitching about "intellectual property" is kinda pointless, considering that easily over 80% of the world population doesn't know it exists. it's quite far from being a "universally accepted" concept, like, e.g. physical property.
best, mishka On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 07:39:05 +0000, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know there are other factors involved in the > argument but, for me, software is _grotesquely_ overpriced. It would be > really interesting to see if any company had the mettle to reduce their > price by a couple of orders of magnitude to try to corner the market. > > m > >
