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- From: "Avi L." <avil@sapiens.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Piracy and the Amiga (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 12:04:42 +0200
- Organization: Sapiens Tech.
- Message-ID: <3160FBBA.465@sapiens.com>
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- Jolyon Ralph wrote:
- >
- > Many ex-Amiga publishers, who are now publishing on different platforms,
- > are giving away (almost) their products for coverdisk use, as they don't
- > care about the Amiga market any more. Existing publishers can't compete
- > with 'free' products, so they have to stop development on their own
- > products. This leads to a freeze in Amiga software - no one can afford to
- > further develop and enhance products and newer versions of your favourite
- > programs just don't appear.
- >
- > Jolyon
-
- this problem could EASILY be solved with no one having to lose anything. how you may ask,
- well, it's simple, since the magazine publishers sell in volumes and can thus practically
- give coverdisks for 'free' without suffering any loss, the software developers have to raise
- their prices when they sell them to the magazines publishers taking into account that
- the magazines actually give away their products for almost nothing. raising the price
- will eventually raise the price of the coverdisks, and will make the consumer think twice
- when purchasing the product from the magazines, provided the price stays the same from the
- developer to the end-user. raising the prices is the ONLY way the Amiga software market
- will ever come alive and be prosperous once again. ofcourse this will happen simultansly
- as new hardware developments come from AT. software alone isn't enough, good hardware support
- is a MUST if consumers are to continue buying Amiga hardware and therefore software.
- staying with the currently low-tech Amiga's won't help the software market for one bit.
- the prices of this new hardware must be reasonable though, otherwise it would back-fire on
- everybody, hardware as well as software developers.
-
- Avi Lev.
-