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- From: toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira)
- Subject: Re: Yet more software piracy
- Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:09:03 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.010903.2753@micor.ocunix.on.ca>
- References: <1992Jul29.181906.27867@athena.cs.uga.edu> <bazyar.712471586@teal> <1992Jul30.202149.29101@micor.ocunix.on.ca>
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- In article <1992Jul30.202149.29101@micor.ocunix.on.ca> toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira) writes:
- >
- >btw, _within the capitalist framework_, one of the major things that
- >adversely affected ][ software development was probably AppleWorks. The
- >only company that really managed to gain anything from that product was
- >Beagle, and they did it in a rape-it-and-leave-it kind of way.
-
- I'd better qualify that. What I mean is that AW made it ridiculous for any
- third-party company to consider selling a word pro, DB, or SS package. Beagle
- compounded this problem by making AW even more useful, and thus impossible
- to compete against...the problem being that this further destroyed the
- possibility of innovation in the market, which in the end helped destroy the
- market itself. You don't see many //e utilities that don't follow the AW
- interface...in terms of standardisation this is nice, but it ignores the
- fact that the AW interface may not be as good as it could. Innovation gets
- strangled.
- (Interestingly, AW doesn't even follow the "selection-then-action" paradigm
- which is rather holy at Apple these days...ie. you have to choose whether
- you're deleting, moving, etc. and _then_ choose the data you want to act on).
-
- And I shouldn't have used "rape" in that metaphorical way...rape isn't the
- least bit metaphorical. "Not to be crossposted", as they say.
-
- [self-flame over B-) ]
-
-
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- Marc Sira |
- toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca | "Your god drinks...P-P-Peach nectar!"
- '
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