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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Path: sparky!uunet!tronsbox!bleys
- From: bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh)
- Subject: Re: Directory Opus 3.50
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.034103.29667@tronsbox.xei.com>
- Organization: Xanadu Enterprises Inc.
- References: <7958@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:41:03 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <7958@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> jpotter@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Potter) writes:
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- [stuff deleted]
-
- >Needless to say I am unhappy about what has occurred. If you can't trust your
- >beta testers who can you trust? People who spread copies of pirated software
- >(especially unfinished versions) can be totally blamed for the low number of
- >high quality programs available for the Amiga. I have become generally
- >disillusioned with the whole business, and am myself seriously considering
- >moving to an IBM or Unix platform after the next version of Directory Opus is
- >finished.
-
- Have you considered that the same creatures (people) will be
- beta-testing your products, regardless of platform? Pirating and
- dishonesty are just as rampant in the DOS community. Where DOS has an
- advantage is in the area of sales volume. If you sell ten times as
- many copies, you don't mind the pirating >as much<. You're never
- gonna escape it, though.
-
- bill
- --
- * Bill Cavanaugh bleys@tronsbox.xei.com *
- * *
- "That whole thing about the 'child within' I've always
- felt to be kinda stunted in a way."
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