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Old 5th January 2010   #90
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Originally Posted by Dean Roddey View Post
You are completely incorrect. Do you know how much it costs to design a new car? Do you have any idea how the actual world works? Clearly you don't. Even with the very high costs of cars most car companies have trouble staying in business because of the huge costs involved. Do you have the slightest idea how much it costs Intel to come out with a new generation of CPU and set up the manufacturing for it? It's billions of dollars. Do you have any idea how much it costs to design a new commercial airliner?

You are delusional if you think these things would get done if the ability to profit substantailly from them didn't exist.



The amount of software made that way is a faction of a percent of the amount of software out there in the world. You are again delusional if you think this is the answer.
you need a history lesson. great things have been bulit in this world without financial compensation.
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