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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why Amiga sucks and why it does't
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 00:29:54 GMT
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
- Message-ID: <4e3ui2$9qe@natasha.rmii.com>
- References: <1747.6590T2T2932@garlic.com> <4dofiu$1en@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <4e1gn3$vb1@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- Charles E Taylor IV (charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu) wrote:
- : In article <4dofiu$1en@ra.nrl.navy.mil> jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil (Greg Jung) writes:
- : :|>1. Good and fast browsers do not exist
- : : Not true. Amigaguide is faster than HTML through max Vax workstation
- : : on a LAN. You want a billion dollar browser? at 14.4 baud?
-
- : Be fair. That would be an asset only if everyone out there had Amigaguide
- : homepages.
-
- AmigaGuide also doesn't allow anywhere NEAR the flexibility of HTML.
-
- : :|>3. A lot of free software
-
- : Unfortunately, free softare doesn't attract developers. We *need* major
- : applications on the Amiga.
-
- In fact, developers cringe when they hear "Why should I pay $30 for your
- program when I can get one on the internet free?" So we lose major
- application developers, and when Amiga shareware/freeware programmers get
- bored or sick of working for nothing, there's no one to fall back on.
-