Re: Royalties???
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     High prices are due mostly to software pirating!  The rest of the fee is
     required to pay programmers and other employees for all the time they
     got paid for the development of the product.  If you want lower software
     prices in general, then you should help fight software piracy.
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     Sorry, you are mistaken in attributing the price to piracy.
     The amount of actual pirated software that is released is no
     where near enough to justify such insanity.  If anything, and
     I know a lot of you will blow a gasket over this one, the groups
     that are releasing do more good than bad in the long run and
     the larger software companies will agree (though not publicly)
     Where do you think these releases come from??  Contrary to popular
     belief, the majority of pirated software is not cracked by some
     twisted little genius in his bedroom with softice, the stuff is
     leaked to the pirates or sold to one of the release groups prior
     to public release.  Yes, I know, you're thinking Im out of my
     mind -- I know this to be fact. period.  The downside of piracy
     in general is when a release is put out by rank amatures that
     either hacked something to pieces or jumped the gun with a buggy
     beta.  That is one of the reasons the software co's leak pre-
     releases out in the first place.  They'd much rather have thier
     product quality intact than their reputations damaged by poorly
     cracked copies.

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