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The Parable of Little Timmy
Little Timmy was a developer at BigCoSoft, but he dreamed of working for himself one day with a product of his very own. When the iPhone SDK came out, he set aside all his free time and slaved over a new iPhone application for months.
When it came to pricing his software, he decided to sell it for the lowest possible price, $0.99, because that’s what everyone else was doing and besides he’d make it all up in volume, whatever that meant. Plus, he already had 12 year old boys yelling at him because the software wasn’t free, and he’d hate to upset anyone.
Unfortunately Little Timmy couldn’t live on $4,000 a year, so he died. BigCoSoft cremated his body in their furnace so they could save $14.67 on their heating bill.
The End.
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