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From: wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Software Sales Strategies vs. Piracy
Message-ID: <4690@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 17 Aug 89 20:40:39 GMT
References: <208@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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In article <208@crash.cts.com>, frankd@pro-pac.cts.com (Mike Snook) writes:
:   Why don't software developers adopt a similar strategy by selling programs
: to stores that will rent them out for a fraction of their purchase price, and
: take a royalty from every rental?  Developers would make more money (possibly,
: I haven't the time to make a federal study of it) and the general population
: has an opportunity to obtain software WITH the manuals.  There will of course
: always be that elite group who will have no less than the original with the
: original packaging either because of elitism or natural honesty.
: 

You sure have my vote!  This is really a great idea.  However I'm afriad
that it would take the whole industry behind it to make it work.  I'd
be more than happy to rent my programs out at say $1 a day!

                                      Wayne Knapp