Volume doesnt justify price in a software environment....ever

Volume justifies price in a manufacturing environment...

Its greed that dictates these prices, were it not for greed, my NexSTAR edition USB interface would work with G3, or even G2 --- which is what the nexstar sim is...its sheer greed...

Explain to me why they dont have a software only package for people who have the nexstar sim? They cant, its greed, plain and simple.

I am already working on a USB driver to catch the control inputs from the nexstar adapter, and have been able to get the 4 axis' to work...not the trims yet...

And i plan on making an emulator to simulate the device so that any usb controller will work for their software... (both legal, im not reverse-engineering their software or changing an of their code)

Anyone want to know what drives software piracy? Cost...want a case in point? In taiwan (i think, maybe another asian country) MS was having their biggest priacy problem inthe world with windows, only 1 of 45 copies was legal...so they decided to sell Windows for the equivalant of 35 bux....sales skyrocketed and MS made more money that they would have with the more expensive price...

I wont buy them, but thats not the point...

Here is something for you to ponder...market the product better, sell it in retail stores (comp-usa, bestbuy, target, walmart...etc) ... sales WILL go up ... and as a nice side effect, it would draw more interest to the hobby, increase sales across the board, and in turn, create more volume, and lower costs of the hobby overall...not to mention help to get rid of some of the negative conceptions of the hobby at the same time....and with increased sales in the hobby, and more interest, the software will in turn sell more...

Its a cycle...it takes one person with a little money to risk to get started....but it wont happen, because greed is too much of a driving factor...the same reason that open-source software will never take a good hold in america....for as much as I love this country and wouldnt live anywhere else, we are, above all else, a country driven by GREED...