Re:Anti-Piracy Patent Aims to Stop Students from Sharing Tex...
by ifewalter on Sunday June 10, 2012 @05:45PM
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Well with more people increasingly dropping out of college, salaries have to come from somewhere
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This has been going on for years in many institutions, he has just managed to make it legal.
Instead of limiting his works to his classroom only, i think he will make more profit on his work if he pushed sales and adoption of his books in other institutions, to other professors/lecturers, even than he can ever make charging a class of +/-100 excessively. And forget about the stupid patent.
The main confusion comes in when you realise: Hey he's an economics professor, you'd think he'll understand business better.
This has been going on for years in many institutions, he has just managed to make it legal.
Instead of limiting his works to his classroom only, i think he will make more profit on his work if he pushed sales and adoption of his books in other institutions, to other professors/lecturers, even than he can ever make charging a class of +/-100 excessively. And forget about the stupid patent.
The main confusion comes in when you realise: Hey he's an economics professor, you'd think he'll understand business better.