Re: GS WEb, tcp/ip and other net software for GS

[ralphp@prysm.net (Ralph Wade Phillips)]

In article <4i1k1j$bh5@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
dmasters@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dan Masterson) wrote:

(quoting of previous articles complaining about the price of the GS
software deleted ... sorry, but my news server won't take anything that's
not at least 50% MY typing! )

> : Have you looked at some ibm software?  A decent paint package is $300 to 
> : $1000 and they don't upgrade.  You buy the new version at full price!
> : That's according to a friend who uses an ibm now.  He bitches that a $600 
> : version doesn't do what DeluxPaint on his Amiga did for $80.
> 
> But isn't that pretty much comparing apples (no pun intended) to oranges. 
> The IBM market is huge.  The Apple market is small (and getting smaller)
> and those who own/use GNO/ME are even smaller.

        Which means that the upgrades would tend to cost MORE, since there
would be FEWER to spread the cost of DOING the upgrade around to. 
Remember, the cost of a software upgrade is MORE than the diskettes and
the package ... SOMEONE has to eat while the code is being written!  And,
for "orphan" machines (such as the //gs, sigh) there isn't an INCREASING
market, but a DECREASING market.  On the IBM and the Mac, at least the
installed base is growing all the time.

> 
> If I had a software product for sale, I would figure that I could get MORE
> people who own that particular product to upgrade to the next version if
> it were offered for a very low price than to turn them off and probably
> lose them with a higher price.  You'll catch more flies with sugar than
> vinegar.
> 
        I appreciate your feelings, and I'm  not trying to put you down.
But, consider ... how would you feel if your boss told you, "Well, you did
that LAST week, so you're getting paid 1/2 to do it again THIS week " ...

        Just food for thougth.

        RwP