Pat You are missing Chip's main point. When a business prices a product or service, it *must* calculate all of its costs (both spent and anticipated) in how it prices a product. It sits down and attempts to estimate how much handholding a typical customer will expect; how much may be spent in warranty repairs; your phone, electric and tax bills; and all the other costs of doing business. Also, you price in a profit as obviously that's why you are in business and why the business can survive. If you don't successfully do this over time, you close your doors as you will go bankrupt. Hence, nothing ultimately is free to the customer though, in the case of technical support, some will obviously use more of it than others. But it isn't free in the true sense of the word as part of the price I might pay you is in anticipation of that support. There is nothing dishonest about this, and it is totally fair.
Getting back to the script question: if someone finds a script with a charge to be of value to them to enough of an extent, they will pay for it. If they don't, they won't. That is the marketplace in action. Many will continue to write scripts gratis; others understandably may see this as a means of paying their bills, supporting their family and all of the other normal expenses of life. If you really love the Lord, then hate evil; have no toleration for it. --Pastor Chuck Smith, The Word for Today as broadcast on Jan 1,2009\ in discussing Psalm 97 Listen to the broadcast at this link: http://mp3.calvarychapel.com/twft/radio/09_01_01.mp3 If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
