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To: MadIvan
"...profit margins of 85 per cent..."

How are these margins calculated? Do they include the costs associated with developing Windows in the first place?

I'm not a real big fan of bill or his software, but this sounds like the complainst about pharmaceutical companies- "this drug costs $.05 to manufacture! How can they justify selling it for $5?" Well, it cost $500 million to develop it and get it through the FDA...

7 posted on 11/18/2002 6:30:01 AM PST by fourdeuce82d
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To: fourdeuce82d
How are these margins calculated? Do they include the costs associated with developing Windows in the first place?

I though they stole it from Xerox, and Apple?

23 posted on 11/18/2002 7:11:36 AM PST by Clovis_Skeptic
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