From:	'K' is the Symbol <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: VR 2.0
Date:	Thu, 28 May 1998 19:04:09 EDT

In a message dated 5/28/98 4:09:20 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
pal@**.BROWN.EDU writes:

> One aspect of the book bothers me, however: the methods by which deckers
> obtain their programs. Either they buy them, or they write them. Writing
> them takes excessive amounts of time: the example given of a decker with a
> computer skill of 8 (damn good) taking a base time of 128 days to write an
> Attack-8S program. Buying them is extremely expensive: Hacker House sells
> computer programs for three million nuyen. That Attack-8S could be sold
> for 128,000 nuyen. That's a pretty amazing living, 1000 nuyen a day.

Yes, but considering that an Attack Program is considered Illegal just to have
in your memory (any form), that's a pretty hefty thing. And having it in
"Active memory" is even worse IIRC. so the "1,000 Nuyen" a day seems
a fair
trade to me for jail.

=K