Re: Best of Music Studio

[aiiadict@gmail.com]

>I released a lot of MIDIsynth song files and wavebanks years ago
>as freeware. I'd be a little annoyed if someone, one day, was looking
>for them and was told if you want them, you have to pay. That wasn't
>how I wanted them distributed.

Freeware, public domain, shareware wants to be distributed.  Thats
the whole point.  Give it to everyone you know, so the author
gets the gratification of his/her code being put to use.  In the
case of shareware, that is the marketing tool.  More people have
it, more people see the "please pay shareware fee" screen,
more people pay for it.

Those who've put together the "collection" aren't the authors
of the software  so you cannot expect them to feel the same
way about it.  They spent their time putting together a list
of software they downloaded from somewhere.  They want
compensation for their work.

If the "compiler" of this collection sold 10 copies at $50,
in my opinion they are compensated.  $500.  divide by
$10 an hour.  They got payed for 50 hours of work.  Anything
over this is profit IMO.

If the publisher of this collection reduced the price, more
copies would sell, perhaps generating more profit for
the 'compiler'.  AND the softwares intended purpose
(plus the authors) will have been respected.

If the Apple II software market in the last 10 years
is any indication, the price won't drop.  Copies won't
sell.

capitalism:  supply and demand.

You have supply.  There is no demand.  There is
desire.  Nobody needs this stuff.  They'd like to
look at it.  Browse the list, check out a few
programs.  

Rich