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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
I guess, but that means that the real expenses have numerous non-physical cultural aspects like licensing and blueprints.
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Yeah, which means that popular models will have prices more or less in line with the calculations in the article, as the IP costs are spread out over a huge customer base.
On the other hand, it is a realistic reason to increase the cost of any PC-designed armour by an arbitrary number, particularly if it doesn't seem like such a design would be a good seller.
Of course, PCs with 'jailbroken' minifacs and connections to the TSA webs might be able to ignore IP costs for things they make, but that would make them data pirates and potentially targets for the WTO.