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Pricing a Software Product
prostoalex writes "Eric Sink from SourceGear shares his experience on software pricing. Whether you're developing open-source or proprietary software, the money has to come into the business in some form, and the article suggests several strategies as well as the pitfalls for managing software pricing. Sink claims it's tough to compete on price, dangerous to run seasonal promotions and almost impossible to avoid criticism on being over-priced."
Wow! A coward gets first post!!
You're confusing it with Beer, which wants to be free. You never actually buy beer, anyway, you only pay rent on it.
For anyone who went to see Festival Express, about a concert tour across Canada (featuring Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Band, and others) there's a great bit about some mayor of a canadian city along the way insisting the promotor let the children of his city into the concert free(!) What with all the difficulty they encountered in Toronto and the capital outlay for a train and all the venues and paying the bands (16 bands? all day concerts!) the promotor took the mayor aside and slugged him.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
A question that anyone approaching this book with an eye to criticizing it as 'obscene' should ask themself is, "Can the human body be obscene in and of itself?" The only way this book can be attacked as obscene is if one answers "Yes," to that question. But if the answer is yes, then all depictions of nudes must be obscene regardless of age, something most people outside of the Victorian Era would strongly disagree with. If the answer is "No," then one must ask why someone turning 18 magically transforms a nude image of them from obscene to artistic?
The only way to avoid these paradoxes is to embrace this book for what it is: a beautiful and deeply erotic examination of girls on the cusp of maturity. (A subject which is sadly taboo in Anglo-American society.)
Many people would probably characterize such an assessment as sick or disturbed, but before doing so they should examine this book honestly and with an open mind. Can any man(excluding gay men logically)say to himself that he feels no desire or arousal looking at these images? And can any woman say to herself that she did not want to be desired when she was that age? I think that one would be hard pressed to find someone who would answer no.
That said, it is time that American society began understanding something which most of the rest of the world already does: Eroticism develops as a continuum, not a series of lock-steps. This book is an important step to the realization that sexuality does not simply appear fully-formed at 18, but is a progression over a number of years prior to that. A society which realizes that is on the road to a better understanding of what constitutes healthy sexuality and where the real patholgies lie. Read this book, buy it if you like it, and, if you enjoy deep discussions about human nature with your dinner guests, proudly display it. I do not believe you will regret it.
I'm setting a price structure for my new dog fucking store.
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