Pricing / entry cost for this tool

[Dan Shafer]

That's a wonderful sentiment and a princely idea, Michael. But it  
would pose a serious administrative nightmare, particularly for  
software downloaded over the Net where you can't even know where the  
buyer resides!

I have on more than one occasion made one of my products available to  
someone who emailed me privately and said they needed or wanted it  
but just couldn't afford it. Maybe if there were a clearing-house of  
some sort for Third World software needs, some kind of plan could be  
put into place.

But as others have said here in different ways -- and as you well  
know -- the total cost involved in providing software to a customer  
is often much larger than the initial fee. Support costs can kill  
you. And if your customers don't speak English as a primary language  
and are working on dialup systems at best, support could turn into a  
real sink hole.

On Nov 25, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Michael Lew wrote:

> I have a couple of educational titles being sold by my University  
> that cost the same number of Australian dollars to Harvard as they  
> do to universities in Africa. It doesn't seem fair. Perhaps  
> software prices could be adjusted for the average (modal) wage in a  
> country. It wouldn't harm me for people in low wage countries to  
> pay me almost nothing instead of absolutely nothing...



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