It doesn't matter how many are sold as much as it matters how many are produced at once. An entrepreneur doesn't intend to recover production costs immediately. Better specs don't always translate to higher cost. Especially these days, newer, faster parts are usually cheaper than long-term-available products, and especially cheaper than old, obsolete or near-obsolete parts.
Again, for-profit has an inherent incentive to incentivise a sale. Non-profit doesn't have this. I'm not saying these are the reasons, but unless other reasons are known, these are things that should be considered. The common idea is that for-profit's goal is to squeeze as much money out of the consumer and non-profit should always be cheaper. Neither of these are necessarily true, and neither is actually very likely. A price-gouging for-profit will go out of business quickly, as will an underfunded non-profit.
Also, one guy is a lot less overhead cost than a large organization; so you may have answered your own question.
Again, for-profit has an inherent incentive to incentivise a sale. Non-profit doesn't have this. I'm not saying these are the reasons, but unless other reasons are known, these are things that should be considered. The common idea is that for-profit's goal is to squeeze as much money out of the consumer and non-profit should always be cheaper. Neither of these are necessarily true, and neither is actually very likely. A price-gouging for-profit will go out of business quickly, as will an underfunded non-profit.
Also, one guy is a lot less overhead cost than a large organization; so you may have answered your own question.
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