Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
I really cannot imagine that a price of 45 pounds is unaffordable.
You are trying to make me sound like Scrooge. £45 is not unaffordable, but I wasn't talking about £45,The Euro price on Marcel's website equates to £68, and who mentioned affordabilty?
I was taking about justifiability.
£68 is more than I am prepared to pay for a purely selfish purchase that no other member of the family gets any benefit from, and something that is not really needed. As I said, I am only a casual user. If I needed it I could, of course afford it, but I don't. Any purchase would be purely out of curiosity, and once that had been satisfied I don't know whether I'd continue using it.
At £71.65, inc carriage, it's more than I can afford for what is now only a passing interest. I have three QL's gathering dust. If the QL is going to continue, let alone gain interest, it must be in emulation. The only way, taking a leaf from Linux, that it is going to increase it's market penetration is if it is freely available for download, under a GNU license. This is a bullet that has to be bitten, if there is to be any future for the platform!
Cheers
Colin
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