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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!titan!sibelius!mathers
- From: mathers@sibelius.trl.OZ.AU (Steven Mathers)
- Subject: Re: Why are they ignoring the Amiga?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.220705.8342@trl.oz.au>
- Sender: root@trl.oz.au (System PRIVILEGED Account)
- Reply-To: s.mathers@trl.oz.au
- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- References: <stefan.35w3@terapin.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:07:05 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <stefan.35w3@terapin.com>, stefan@terapin.com (Stefan Eguizabal) writes:
- |> From an Amiga user (and lover) to anyone:
- |> Why is it that all the big PC and Macintosh devolopers seem to be
- |> ignoring the Amiga? Don't big companies like Microsoft, Claris, Lotus, and
- Cricket realize what a treasure a community like the Amiga is? Many Amiga users
- |> are desperate for good productivity software, and yet are adamant about not
- |> going over to IBM or Apple, because the Amiga is definitely the superior
- | computer. I am one of those. If Microsoft came out with Word or Excel today, I
- |> would go out and buy it, no matter how much it cost, because programs like
- |> Professional Calc (Gold Disk), and MaxiPlan (The Disc Comapany) are like big
- |> jokes...they're really pathetic! Somebody, please, you've got to know!
-
- Why do companies do anything? They are in the buisiness of making
- money. Anything a company does is directly related to profit.
- If Microsoft thought they could make decent money selling ports
- of their PC software to the Amigans, they would. Let me ask you a
- question. How much software have you actually bought compared to how
- much you have pirated? The great majority of amiga users are 500 owners
- who probably can't afford $x00 for a word processor or whatever.
-