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- From: jgager@bmi.net (John Gager)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Piracy and the Amiga (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 96 21:41:49 GMT
- Organization: Blue Mountain Internet
- Message-ID: <4jfcfg$8q@bigjohn.bmi.net>
- References: <4j7cru$123@flood.xnet.com> <DovrpA.C2q@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- In article <DovrpA.C2q@cix.compulink.co.uk>,
- jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph") wrote:
- >Apart from short-term benefits from upgrade sales to the companies
- >offering the free coverdisk program, and to the magazines in increased
- >circulation, (and, of course, to the magazine buyer getting a real
- >bargain - although unknowingly killing the Amiga market at the same
- >time), everyone loses out in the long run as no-one can afford to develop
- >a product purely to give away on a magazine.
-
- Yeah, but doesn't a company have to give their permission before a magazine
- could release their software on a coverdisk? It seems to me that if a company
- allowed that, then they have no-one else to blame but themselves. Of course,
- there are quite a few cheapskates that are using software without upgrading,
- but it's not their fault it was on a coverdisk for $10.
-