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- From: 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: ADVOCACY: Re: a blurb
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.225109.13940@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 03:51:09 GMT
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- > Do you think it would be any different if the ST / Falcon was as popular
- > as the PC ??? Do you think ST/Falcon owners would pirate less?
- >
- > I doubt it.
- >
- > People were trying to say the PC is bad because people pirate stuff on it
- > more than on any other platform. This would also be true for any other
- > machine that was out in the market in those sort of numbers. Saying the
- > PC is bad for the pirating reason is absolutly stupid!
-
- When I was talking about this, my point was that so many of the la-dee-da-GREAT
- clone software that make people want to rave is so expensive that I _know_
- there's no way that so many people _could_ buy them all! Gimme a break! If I
- had a PC I would probably be pissed at the price gouging enough to pirate too!
- $500 or more just to own 3 or 4 nice programs? I don't think so.
-
- -Matt
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