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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Ethics of joining CompuServe to DL B&P
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 18:05:59 GMT
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- Shelly R. Rodewald (srrodewa@sprint.uccs.edu) wrote:
- :
- : How about the ethics of Microsloth buying Blue Ribbon to kill B&P Pro?
-
- You obviously lack perspective on the effect _anything_ Amiga has on the
- PC world - even if you include the Amiga in the "PC" umbrella. The don't
- know, they don't care. If the Amiga world has something to brag about,
- the PC world replies "that's just for games" or "that's just for power
- users" and laugh it off. Then, of course, they crow when they get the
- same capability - as if it were somehow new. When we have it, they lack
- the sense to see that it is even desireable. Buy Blue Ribbon to kill B&P
- Pro? Don't be silly!
-
- : Don't tell me you think they bought them to get the "software technology",
-
- OK. I won't tell you.
-
- : Microsoft just steals what it wants, sells it under its own name, and then
- : dares you to take them to court.
-
- Microsoft is not shy about taking others to court.
-
- : (That's why DOS 6.22 and the change from
- : DoubleSpace to DriveSpace -- the stole DoubleSpace from Stacker (and screwed
- : it up to boot.))
-
- Microsoft had reason to believe that what it did was ethical. They were
- told it was not.
-
- : Microsloth just wanted to kill B&P for the Amiga because it
- : showed them up, and was small and cheap. Kind of like swatting a fly.
-
- See my first paragraph. It was a flea that wasn't even biting them, not
- even a fly making an annoying buzz.
-
- : Great, now we can get B&P for free -- did it ever occur to you that the
- : reason they are giving it away is because they don't want to support it?
-
- Of course. And it brings in a little extra green. Very little.
-
- : Now there will never be another upgrade, another bugfix, or even any simple
- : support. Yeah, Microsloth-- screw the Amiga users and get a few to even
- : cheer your "Generosity".
- :
-
- I agree that it is regretable that we no longer have Blue Ribbon
- providing quality software for the Amiga. Microsoft's action,
- "generosity", was the first sign of humanity from that corporation. Cheer
- them for _that_. Their intent was not to "screw the Amiga users" any more
- than the American government went out of its way to screw the residents
- of My Lai a couple of decades ago. "Who?" It's history, but don't believe
- it was planned at the highest levels.
-