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
