Thanks,
actually, your replies are better than mines :-)

"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> a �crit dans
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> "Larry Elmore" <ljelmore@home.com> wrote in message
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> > nicolas wrote:
> >
> > > You don't pay to build the factory, the company invest a lot, and can
> count
> > > on an income only if the result is good.
> >
> > You _don't_??!! _WHO DOES_, then, if not the customer?
> >
> Eventually, the customer pays. But that's a lot different than asking the
> customer to fund the development cost up-front. That's what the venture
> capitalist or entrepeneur is supposed to do.
>
> I think you are misinterpreting the intention here. I believe the point
was
> about asking the customer to just simply pay some cost-plus development
> money in order to get a library. That is definitely not the same sort of
> thing as eventually paying off a business's asset acquisition by repeated
> sales of a product.
>
> IOW: You go build it - if I like it and find it worth the price you
charge,
> I buy it. It isn't usually done in the other order - unless you're the
> government! :-)
>
> > > I'd really like to see you in a TV store :-)
> > > "Stephen, give me money now, I'm going to develop a great TV set,
build
> a
> > > factory, and I promise you will have a great TV set within a few years
> ..."
> >
> > Duh... What do you think investors do every day? How in the world do you
> > think the vast majority of companies got started in the first place?
> > Government mandate, or magic?
> >
> A bit unfair. An investor is not the same thing as a customer.
>
> --
> Marin David Condic
> Senior Software Engineer
> Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
> Enabling the digital revolution
> e-Mail:    marin.condic@pacemicro.com
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