Targhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gary said:
>
> > > and sell a printed manual.
> >
> > Name one company using this method who is making any mopney
and
> > surviving off of the revenue stream from the above?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Gary
>
>
> Mandrake does this; however, I do not know whether or not they
are
> *really* turning a profit.  According to their newsletter,
Mandrake
> is running in the black...  Then again, Enron said they were
> running in the black too.  I cannot cite any other instances of
the
> above method working.

Last *I* checked, every company using JUST this model were living
on venture capital or they had IPO'd to try and live off stock
investments.

> However, Gary, I don't envy Amiga's position about the future
of
> piracy.  It is a difficult thing to deal with, and any popular
> system is going to have it's share of piracy.  It's not an easy
> dilimma to solve.

It is difficult and the harder it becomes for developers to get a
fair profit for thier work, the less software will be available.

Sincerely,
Gary



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