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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 96 23:28:28 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
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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 01 Apr 96 "jolyon Ralph" wrote to All:
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- jR> You can't compare the Amiga/PC/Mac markets, they are *completely*
- jR> different.
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- Disagree. The only major difference is scale.
-
- >> jR> made worthless once the product appears on a magazine, and people
- >> jR> aren't even buying new products - waiting instead for the
- >> jR> inevitable coverdisk release.
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- >> I doubt this, since one never knows if some program is going to make it
- >> onto a coverdisk in the first place.
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- jR> I'm afraid it's true. We've talked to *lots* of people, investing a lot
- jR> of time and effort into trying to find out why the market for
- jR> professional software is so low in the UK (compared to the high number
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- Because the UK is mainly a games market. (It's different in Germany.)
- That leaves a relatively low number of potential clients for
- 'professional' software.
- I don't doubt coverdisks play a role in all this, but I don't think
- it's the decisive factor.
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- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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