On Dec 30, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Rony wrote:
For profit too there is a variation. Do you want to make money enough to recover your development and distribution cost or all that _and_ make a handsome profit over it or do you want to do the above _and_ keep milking your customers for every copy of the software they install, for as many years that you can pull it off.
:o)
It is need vs greed. If a poor taxiwala overcharges a few rupees during a taxi shortage, he is considered a criminal who should be severely punished. If airline companies form a cartel, create artificial shortage and extremely overcharge their customers, they are respectable blue collared businessmen who simply call it the laws of 'supply and demand'.
Bang on! In short, everything depends on whose side the law is. Morality and law, often they don't agree.
Cheers,
Amol Hatwar