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- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 96 23:29:54 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Piracy and the Amiga (was Re: AB3D
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
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- In a message of 26 Mar 96 "jolyon Ralph" wrote to All:
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- jR> But it wasn't the big killer for professional Amiga software though
- jR> (and I know several people here will strongly disagree with this), the
- jR> big killer for professional Amiga software was the magazines giving
- jR> away full-priced products (eg Imagine 2) on their coverdisks.
-
- Disagree indeed. This happens in the PC/Mac world too, and those
- companies certainly don't go all bust.
-
- The big killer for Amiga software design and for the Amiga in
- general, was this one man called Mehdi Ali.
-
- Mismanagement is what ultimately hampered Amiga development, not
- coverdisks. These only came into play when the Amiga market got
- smaller - when the damage had already been done.
-
- Besides, no company is obliged to offer its software to magazines.
- If they can still make money off it, they certainly won't take
- it to a magazine. So I doubt there's much money lost on
- older programs that make it onto a coverdisk.
-
- jR> The whole industry suffered. People will happily put up with an old
- jR> (but functional) Word Processsor rather than buy a new one.
-
- If it works for them, why not? Just to keep developer's pockets
- filled? That's not the consumer's job.
-
- jR> made worthless once the product appears on a magazine, and people
- jR> aren't even buying new products - waiting instead for the inevitable
- jR> coverdisk release.
-
- I doubt this, since one never knows if some program is going to
- make it onto a coverdisk in the first place.
-
- jR> Apart from short-term benefits from upgrade sales to the companies
- jR> offering the free coverdisk program, and to the magazines in increased
-
- ...And the magazine doesn't have to pay anything to put the program
- on the cover in the first place? Hm.
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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