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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Path: cix.compulink.co.uk!usenet
- From: jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph")
- Subject: Re: Piracy and the Amiga (was Re: AB3D
- Message-ID: <Dp6HEy.7oL@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
- References: <rdingem.4p21@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:06:33 GMT
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-
- > Disagree indeed. This happens in the PC/Mac world too, and those
- > companies certainly don't go all bust.
-
- You can't compare the Amiga/PC/Mac markets, they are *completely*
- different.
-
- > 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.
-
- I'm afraid it's true. We've talked to *lots* of people, investing a lot
- of time and effort into trying to find out why the market for
- professional software is so low in the UK (compared to the high number of
- Amiga's owned). Time and time again, the answers come back both from end
- users and from shops that the only professional software they buy is the
- 'free' stuff on magazines. I was suprised. I would have thought Piracy
- was the big killer, but no, it's not...
-
- Jolyon
-