Dear lord, no profit = no business, of course profit is the primary objective. Gog has drm free market not for the gamers but because it's their business, they barely have competion in that area therefore their sucess. What do you think they're trying to do by throwing away their ideals? Why did they come up with the galaxy software?

They want a bigger audience (that equals to? Want to guess? MORE PROFIT!)

Value their customers? Just stop for a minute and think about this, where is the community manager? You know, what better way to VALUE their CUSTOMERS by having a good COMMUNICATION between their customers on the FORUM and GOG. That link? The community manager.

Hit the nail on the head.

Thanks GOG! Without you, I would not have been able to purchase DRM-free games with good price. Your will allow me to play games, which I was not able to buy and play in my youth. In my youth I could afford to buy 2-4 games a year. GOG you must continue making world DRM free.

If you're running a business and say our main goal is to make money, its most likely because your business is failing.
Money is of course always an influencing factor, but for most companies it is not the driving factor.

A chef doesn't open a restaurant to make money, he opens it to make food. Yes he sells the food, and must cover costs and make profit, but the potential money was not whet drove him to open the restaurant.

For the vast majority of businesses its success is not measured solely on its profits, though its failure can be measured in its lack of money.

Yes there are companies whose success is solely measured by there profits. Companies that float on the major stock exchanges for example. And while in terms of percentage of wealth they make the majority, in terms of actual numbers of businesses they're are the exception.

Yes I know CDP is floated in the Polish stock exchange, but that's hardly an international market influencer.

Amok makes a solid point but I'm not gonna stop with my thank yous to any and all, be they man or machine.

That's beaufitul and all... But time has passed and he started using cheap ingredients, raise the price of some dishes, constructed a new bar inside the restaurant, stopped asking feedback from his customers, etc. What does that tell you?

That he is either the only restaurant in town or will soon be closing down.

There's always a balancing act specially in a competitive market, and money will always influence what you do in business. But it rarely the guiding influence.

While I admit it is odd, we do not run our B&B to make money, and we don't. We make just enough to break even every year and keep it running, which is what we really want to do.

But you don't know that, you might be right to some point but you could also be making assumptions when the guy just want to expand his business in order to get more money.

Its not odd. Not odd in any way.

In terms of the number of business owners, its odd to float your company and be driven by pure profit.

Did you change your principles? Did you stopped caring about your customer feedback? Because depending of your answers i could see mechmouse point, the same can't be said about gog...

Then he's likely to fail. MOst expand their business, because they want to expand, the extra money is secondary.

I'm not saying thats not his goal, only that is not the normal goal of business owners. He'd be the exception, not the rule. And unless he was an exceptional businessman, he'd likely fail.

I knew it! You run the B&B for the customer stories you get to share, and the looks of incredulity that accompany the cries of "That couldn't have happened!"

I probably could write a book about that, but no one would believe most of it. :P