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<<If you still think "development cost" is a significant portion of a software budget…your sense of business reality is a little off too, it seems for the west.>> That depends where you start Rachel. If you have to buy hardware and software at full prices, salaries, advertise, etc. then the cost is significant. If on the other hand you have a luxury of getting software for free or heavily discounted prices and you work at your own paces when you please without any fixed deadline then your development costs are bound to be low and other expenditures like advertising become more significant. I'm not jealous that Pavel got what I'd have to pay for a few thousand bucks. I'm merely trying to point out that he cannot expect western developers to sell their products to an unsecure market at low prices just because people over there make less money than people in the West. He's way out of touch with western realities saying that almost everybody can buy their own copy 3D Studio for less than a month's salary. Actually I'm not surprised considering the fact that he admitted in another thread that he knows American law from films and books. In films everybody is making big $$$$ <g>. <<It seems Pavel's basic creative genius would adapt and excel in business in any country, and I am sure he would rapidly adapt to the corruption and piracy at the developer level, it's just another system to learn and he seems quite fluent in many. >> I'm not criticizing his business acumen. I'm simply saying he's got to learn a thing or two about the West before he tries to talk about it. Jacek Artymiak (Bitmap Studios Ltd.)