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A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since August 4, 2001

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August 4, 2001, on Software Pricing:
Software was never meant to be horribly expensive and thereby out of bounds of simple folks with needs. Bill G went horribly wrong thinking no one will buy his software and hiked his price and lo! behold he has started a trend and he and rest of the software people are suddenly the richest people in the world. I cannot understand how a MS Window can cost approx 200USD time and time again and still be crap and yet people get richer. Perhaps software should be like music cd's, cheap enough for every one to buy and thereby generate enough volume for the company to make a decent profit.