CompuServe Messages

John, Thanks a lot for your survival hints for the slot-destitute. About 3Ds and Autocad pricing……as I'm sure I mentioned before, software pricing seems to us outsiders to be a strange, surrealist, alchemical type business -sort of, a branch of astrology; one gets the impression that it's *decoupled* from actual production costs -sort-of floating free in space. May I ask this question -necessarily apostrophic (no, I'm not an English major) because I can hardly expect Autocad to tip its marketing hand here….but, *If* you sold your product for $750, *and* as a result, five or more times as many people purchased your product, would you do it? If it worked out, everybody would be ahead. And, as a bonus for Autodesk, you might have caused at least some of the larcenous pirates who are presently freeloading on you to have avoided sin -or whatever. [—-I promise not to bring this up again—-] Stephen