> >majority of users can get it from the other sources just mentioned.  You
> >might suggest I raise the distribution price beyond the current $28 a
> >copy, but I can't raise it very much, because it competes with commercial
> >products that come with reasonable end-user documentation *and* support
>                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> and I assume the packaging is much better, and I assume their
> marketing is via magazines etc. Unless you do these things you *will
> not* succeed in the mass-market.

Yes, exactly.  That's why my commercial Ghostscript business is an OEM
business, not an end-user business.  Fortunately some of my customers *do*
want to be in that business, and know what they have to do to compete
effectively.  There's a moderately successful shrink-wrap PC product that
came out last Fall that has Ghostscript in it, in fact.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
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