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- From: cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Yet more software piracy
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.064109.7809@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 06:41:09 GMT
- References: <bazyar.712471586@teal> <1992Jul30.202149.29101@micor.ocunix.on.ca> <1992Jul31.010903.2753@micor.ocunix.on.ca>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- In article <1992Jul31.010903.2753@micor.ocunix.on.ca> toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira) writes:
- >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.
- >
-
- Somehow, I can't quite swallow this argument. Are you seriously
- suggesting that companies shouldn't make programs as good as they can?
- --
- -Tero Sand
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