Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucuxc Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!hamilton From: hamilton@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: AMIGA DEVELOPMENT KIT UPDATE: SORRY Message-ID: <148600014@uiucuxc> Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 02:30:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucuxc.148600014 Posted: Tue Nov 12 02:30:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 00:46:05 EST References: <1038@druxo.UUCP> Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:druxo.UUCP:1038:uiucuxc:148600014:000:997 Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!hamilton Nov 12 01:30:00 1985 > Also- to the guy who complained that if you can't afford $3000 for a dev- >elopment system, you can't afford what it takes to produce software: It >does not require MONEY do develop good software. It requires time, talent, >a good idea, and as lot of sweat. Most of the software startups in the world >did not come from large amounts of venture capital, they came from individuals >with a good idea and the will to see it work. i didn't say anything to the contrary. i said that if commodore has to ration their support resources (an idea i thought you first mentioned), it would be reasonable for them to discriminate among potential developers on the basis of the developers' economic resources; it's a lot easier than trying to measure "time, talent, a good idea, and a lot of sweat". note we're not talking really big bucks here. $3,000 is about one month's gross pay for one good programmer. "large amounts of venture capital" would be at least a couple orders of magnitude more.