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To: K. M. Strickler who wrote (17184)	2/8/1998 6:57:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>>>I think that those who do not need the books, shouldn't have to pay for them! If Absolutely. Of course, what we were talking about was whether prices on tools and other software have gone up. Since you always used to get (expensive) book(s) with the software, and now you don't, to compare fairly you have to add the price of the books, and the cost of developer programs, and the cost of support calls to the software price, and then compare to the prices of 8 years ago, when all this was usually included. When you do that, you see that developer tools and support, worth billions a year, are more expensive now. I believe this has to do with Microsoft's effective elimination of the competition via leveraging it's insider position in the operating system, in spite of the competition's tools having been superior for most of the intervening years, and the competition having done most of the innovation and having gotten there first in IDEs and C++ and Java and 'resource studios'. Chaz