Joel on Software - On the Pricing of Software - Fortune

Joel on Software - On the Pricing of Software

NOW WE’RE GETTING SOMEWHERE!

This is really cool. I think we’re on the verge of solving the problem of how much to charge for software! I’M SO EXCITED!

The reason I’m so excited is it looks like if you plot price against profit, you get a nice curve with a big hump in the middle! And we all know what humps mean! Humps mean local maxima! Or camels. But here they mean local maxima!

Author Joel Spolsky
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