Path: utzoo!yunexus!xrtll!mark
From: mark@xrtll.UUCP (Mark Vange)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Software Sales Strategies vs. Piracy
Message-ID: <345@xrtll.UUCP>
Date: 18 Aug 89 18:12:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: xrtll.345
References: <208@crash.cts.com> <21585@cos.com>
Organization: Wcom, Toronto, Ont
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In article <21585@cos.com>, andrews@cos.com (Andrew R. Scholnick) writes:
> Another approach has been adopted by the Computer Club Company.  
> All software has an encoded, unique, serial number which is tracked by sale and
> updated (if sold through a store) when the registration card arrives.  There
> is NO copy protection.  The serial number is so the company knows who to sue if
> a pirated copy is found. ...

If someone is going to pirate the stuff, they will simply buy it from a
store and NOT send in the registration card!

> NO SOFTWARE IS SOLD FOR MORE THAN $20.  No matter how fancy.  The two software
> products currently (Nancy, a spelling checker and Zelda, a print/merge utility)
Correct me if I'm wrong - and I don't mean to belittle your work - but there
are widely different documentation and support requirements between
different types of software.  'small' utilities can certainly be created and
marketed for much less than Word Processors or Games, but, if the product
were 'marketted' to it's full potential, you would be heaving much higher
costs.  I'd like to see how your approach works when your product line
expands from supporting software to applications.
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