From: Curtis Clark (jcclark@mockfont.com)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 12:50:55 EST
on 2003-12-04 09:43 Edward H. Trager wrote:
> Actually, I am a bioinformatics programmer, and to date I have given away
> my programs away for free. The main reason I give them away for
> free is fairly simple: the market of genetics researchers
> potentially interested in buying them is too small,
> so I would not make that much money trying to sell them.
To muddy the waters further, vendors who make gel analysis software that
is involved in generating the basic data of genomics and proteomics
charge huge amounts of money, that labs regularly pay, because some
types (and venues) of biomedical research are well-funded. The issue of
software cost is a complex one, involving both business and non-business
decisions (and especially the latter in one-person operations).
-- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ Mockingbird Font Works http://www.mockfont.com/
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