On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:10:27AM -0600, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Larry Colen" > Subject: Re: point and shoot
> >Most of those features are purely software, so don't add anything to > >production cost. > > > > Software writers work for free? A lot do. A lot of software is being written for reasons other than financial motivation. For example a Finnish college kid named Linus Torvalds wrote the basis of an operating system for the fun of it. The upside of this is there is a lot of software available for free, the downside is that if you want to sell your software, it's tough to compete on price with "free". > No wonder I hammer nails for a living. That industry's been hit even harder than the software industry these days. Writing software is a development cost not a production cost. NRE, Non-Recurring Expense. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
