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Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah [message #27111 is a reply to message #26982]

Tue, 09 October 2001 15:09

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Mark Hadfield (m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz) writes:

> I don't know about Kodak, but I have always thought the RSI division must be
> rolling in money, given how much my employer pays them on my behalf every
> year. But perhaps I'm naive.

While it's true that the material cost of producing
software is well under a $1 (oh, maybe $5 when you
throw in the box), that is a long way from the true
cost. And I would be shocked to learn that maintenance
and technical support fees actually cover the costs
of these two necessary functions.

While I don't expect to see David Stern in a
soup-line anytime soon, I don't think the money
he made is anything like what most of the people
complaining about maintenance costs *think* he
made. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say that what *really* gets my
goat is what the Lucent Board of Directors paid
Richard McGinn after he ran that company straight
into the ground!

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		Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: David Fanning on Tue, 09 October 2001 11:46
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1] on Wed, 10 October 2001 11:51
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Noam R. Izenberg on Wed, 10 October 2001 04:29
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: David Fanning on Tue, 09 October 2001 15:09
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 09 October 2001 14:25
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: David Fanning on Tue, 09 October 2001 14:01
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Joseph B. Gurman on Wed, 10 October 2001 15:50
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Struan Gray on Tue, 23 October 2001 07:07
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:56
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:23
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: David Fanning on Wed, 10 October 2001 16:44

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