If companies like fs they halve their prices, their sales would tripple I think. That probably means more tech support and other things too lol. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] piracy of judgment day
> Hi Ari, > I totally understand where those people are coming from in the cases > below, and I can sympathize with their situation. Unfortunately, that > isn't the fault of the company that produced the product in question. It > is the fault of society in general, and the economic status of the > developing country where the person resides. > For example, I have been told a couple times that Montezuma's Return is > quite expensive in some South American countries, and have been asked if > I could lower the price for them. Well, the problem is I live in the > United States and I need to charge an amount of money suited for the > econemy where I live. If I cut the price in half to lower the payment > for that person's econemy then I am losing money and am unable to > sustain a quality of income necessary for my own country's econemy. > There isn't a good answer for this kind of catch 22 situation. > With a company such as FS the reason the software is so high is they > have several programmers and tech support personelle making around > $60000 a year last I checked. In order to pay all those programmers, > tech support people, and sales reps the software has to make enough in > order to pay all those employees and cover things like computer > upgrades, software upgrades, etc to keep the business running. > Selling Jaws dirt cheap to every blind user on SSI, in developing > countries, etc isn't going to pay all those employees and pay the > electric bill do to economic prices. We can treat this has a Robinhood > situation where we rob the ritch to support the poor, but never see by > robbing the ritch we eventually hurt the poor as well. If you steel > income required for upgrades, research, etc the next product release > isn't going to be as good as it could have been. Often times we might > not even know what was left out do to our piracy. > > ari wrote: >> No, there are instances that I have seen where for the case of humanity, >> I >> am looking at it from the perspective of the developing world where money >> is >> scarce, and, let us say, before NVDA and free screen readers, there were, >> let's call them needs, and there were questions of refused funding for >> such >> programs while a fellow blind comrade's livlihood was in peril because if >> he >> didn't have such software he couldn't get a job he needed to support his >> family, even though he was willing to work, some people were unable or >> unwilling to help out. I'm being cryptic, but I can still defend piracy. >> There are also instances of persons living in countries under US >> sanctions >> who, a certain blind person wanted to become a teacher, and, because he >> was >> not allowed to import screen reading programs, well, provisions had to be >> made. I know that this is technically piracy, but I regard this as >> delicate >> shades of grey where I would allow human discretion. >> Ari >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
