[Dr. Frank fan]

Let's see, I'm no actuary, but seems to me that demanding X+Y royalties on 0 sales rather than X royalties on N sales will not help you "maximize intellectual property income" in the first place.

[hopespringseternal]

Let's see, I'm no actuary, but seems to me that demanding X+Y royalties on 0 sales rather than X royalties on N sales will not help you "maximize intellectual property income" in the first place.

You apparently aren't a graduate of business school. More and more, I am finding that companies exist as a small core of competent people getting something done surrounded by huge numbers of useless, unproductive people searching out meaning for their existence at the expense of everyone else.

Unfortunately, the useless people eventually wind up running the place...right into the ground.

[MarkL]

Let's see, I'm no actuary, but seems to me that demanding X+Y royalties on 0 sales rather than X royalties on N sales will not help you "maximize intellectual property income" in the first place.

"We lose money on every unit, but we make it up in volume!"

Mark

[Last Visible Dog]

Let's see, I'm no actuary, but seems to me that demanding X+Y royalties on 0 sales rather than X royalties on N sales will not help you "maximize intellectual property income" in the first place.

Brings a whole new meaning to the term "intellectual"