[thelist] cheap software spam - how do they do it?

James Conley Conleyj at kubota-kma.com
Tue Mar 21 11:22:44 CST 2006


Hey Shawn, seeing as writing software is so easy for you - would you
mind knocking out an Open-Source version of the Microsoft Office Suite
that is 100% compliant with Microsoft Office and can read/write Office
files over your lunch hour?

James c

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Subject: Re: [thelist] cheap software spam - how do they do it?

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 14:27 +1100, Ken Schaefer wrote:
  [I wrote:]
> > For the moment, forget the support hotline, shrinkwrap, fancy box, 
> > 60 second commercial on 100 different cable TV and broadcast 
> > channels including one airing during a major national sporting event

> > that Nielsen thinks almost everyone watches, half- or even full-page

> > newspaper and magazine ads, billboards, and even the CD/DVD itself.
> > Take all that out, and the cost to develop a given program into 
> > something usable drops significantly (and we begin to see just where

> > that $1200 for this Adobe Suite thing actually goes).
> 
> Huh? Programmer salaries?

Programmers should be paid hourly, not salaried. If the programmers are
on salary that alone probably accounts for 25% ($300).

> Buildings to house said programmers? 

So you'd rather pay Adobe's rent than your own? That's great, I guess.

--
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>

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