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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (18493)	4/15/1998 5:05:00 PM
From: damniseedemons	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Norm, what do volumes have to do with anything? Whether Microsoft sells 1 copy of Windows or 1 million, nothing says prices have to drop with volume. If you're thinking economies-of-scale, it doesn't apply to software because manufacturing costs are next to zero anyway (it does apply to computer hardware, of course). Volume is absolutely NOT an issue. >A box of air and CD-ROM still has to cost far less to distribute than the CD-ROM player it plays on, yet I can purchase the hardware for less. Real competition produces real prices. First of all, there's a tremendous difference between commodity items (CD-Roms) and proprietary products (software/OSes). There's pleny of competition in the OS market, anyway. On any platform, not just PCs where Microsoft plays, companies who sell Operating Systems have always priced them highly and continue to do so.