翠星石 on Nostr: nprofile1q…hs06p LisPi It's not generosity to go put shackles on people. > ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq6uk4yyw47haxwl0klhh7lcx3qatkyqmpc6gc4hwru3qedaeuueequhs06p (nprofile…s06p) LisPi (nprofile…2mzm) It's not generosity to go put shackles on people.
> Microsoft have a 90%+ profit margin on the retail price of their monopoly software
Via direct payment it's at least a 95.45% profit margin, as it's not like it costs more than a fraction of a cent to process the transaction and send a copy of the software (the credit card transaction fees eat 1.5-2% and also including the salaries of the programmers too (which probably shouldn't actually be added to the equation)).
Via store sales it's ~90%, as the paper/plastic printout and the stores cut does have a cost.
>NZ$1,400,000 (actual cost to Microsoft of perhaps as little as $140,000)
For such kind of "offer", it'll cost them at most a few hundred to pay an already hired employee to write up an email and generate the "license keys" - I don't see how sending copies of software and maybe linking to already written guides would cost them that much.
> Microsoft have a 90%+ profit margin on the retail price of their monopoly software
Via direct payment it's at least a 95.45% profit margin, as it's not like it costs more than a fraction of a cent to process the transaction and send a copy of the software (the credit card transaction fees eat 1.5-2% and also including the salaries of the programmers too (which probably shouldn't actually be added to the equation)).
Via store sales it's ~90%, as the paper/plastic printout and the stores cut does have a cost.
>NZ$1,400,000 (actual cost to Microsoft of perhaps as little as $140,000)
For such kind of "offer", it'll cost them at most a few hundred to pay an already hired employee to write up an email and generate the "license keys" - I don't see how sending copies of software and maybe linking to already written guides would cost them that much.