CDNs should pay eyeball networks, too.

Tue May 1 21:27:50 UTC 2012

> Mike - please get mail software that does correct quoting. It's 2012, and
> proper quoting has been understood since the mid 80s.  There's *really* no
> excuse for using software that can't get quoting and citing right.
*eye roll*
Really?  You wasted 36 words on this?

> And if you've *collected* that $316,472 from the one customer, it's somewhere
> between sleazy and skanky to include that $316K in the costs that need to be
> amortized over the next N sales of the software.
It's neither sleazy nor skanky.  It's called profit.  I get what
you're saying, but it's a silly argument because, while you're not
going to bill the same "hours" (as a unit) twice, you sure as hell are
going to bill over and over again for the same work...you'd be stupid
not to.

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:20 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 May 2012 14:13:01 -0700, Mike Hale said:
>
>> > "But you *may not* tie your
>> > price to the hours used to produce it for the first."
>
> The above was William Herrin's comment (quoting level fixed by me).
>
> Mike - please get mail software that does correct quoting. It's 2012, and
> proper quoting has been understood since the mid 80s.  There's *really* no
> excuse for using software that can't get quoting and citing right.
>
>> Sure you can.  How else do you determine what the software's going to
>> cost if you're not going to factor in development?
>
> You missed the point - having given customer #1 an invoice that included
> a line item for 1,432 hours of R&D at $221/hour, you're treading on thin
> ice if you present another customer an invoice that includes a line item for
> the same 1,432 hours of R&D (absent an agreement between the two
> customers to share the costs, etc).
>
> And if you've *collected* that $316,472 from the one customer, it's somewhere
> between sleazy and skanky to include that $316K in the costs that need to be
> amortized over the next N sales of the software.
>


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