>>Although I also think the market dictates the price of software. But, if I am sure, the more copies a software company expects to sell, the lower the price.
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>Now there is a statement of someone you completely believes in the free market. :-)

There's a quote I remember hearing from time to time in the publishing industry, when the marketing people price a book at below the cost of production:

"Sure it's costing us $1 a copy for each book we sell - but we'll make it up in sales volume!"

- an anonymous (and currently unemployed) sales rep