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Well, the plumber and his ilk should understand there are different kinds of
products and different ways to buy. If a developer had 40 houses that needed
plumbing, should the developer expect to pay the plumber only once because,
after all, it is only one job. Similarly, should an author write a book that
40 people want to read, should he get paid only once?
Consider you want to buy something, and all you have to buy it with is
sheep. And, the seller requires cattle. Well, you be out of luck.
In this case, the seller requires you pay for each copy of the work. And, if
you only are able to buy it once, then you can only have one copy.
Suppose it takes a plumber 36 hours to plumb a house. Suppose it takes a
writer 10 years to write a book. Should the pricing of these two commodities
somehow be related? Why would we expect that these are related? A plumber
can plumb a house in 36 hours, but Adobe takes two years plus R&D to develop
FrameMaker. Should we say the CD product is the same as the plumbing
product?
In other words, I find the comparison between intellectual property and
physical property to be so distinct that I really cannot get a good handle
on comparing the pricing schemes of the two as though they were the same. I
find the analogy off-base.
Cheers,
Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
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> From: Glenn Maxey [SMTP:glenn -dot- maxey -at- voyanttech -dot- com]
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com
> > [mailto:KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 2:44 PM
> > To: TECHWR-L
> > Subject: RE: More ethics...
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> >
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> > Who's the enemy? ... the "enemy" might also be your
> > neighbor the dry-cleaner, or the plumber or the
> > plasterer/drywaller, or the carpenter who installed
> > your new rec room.
>
> > There's an important point that all these people,
> > in their daily work, have in common. When they
> > finish a job, and get paid for it, they move on.
> > Most of 'em produce something physical that is
> > often unique (within the parameters that it's
> > still plumbing, say, it happens to solve this
> > particular plumbing problem in an imaginative,
> > practical way).
>
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