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- From: mattias@tse.uucp (Mattias Hembruch x0830)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: ADVOCACY: Re: a blurb
- Keywords: PC piracy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.175052.6986@tse.uucp>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:50:52 GMT
- References: <1j2ac1INNk6d@life.ai.mit.edu> <C0v5I3.EE4@ecf.toronto.edu> <H.ea._sv_q0rNksA@yonder.equinox.gen.nz> <C12uG0.JsD@ecf.toronto.edu>
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- In article <C12uG0.JsD@ecf.toronto.edu> alrashi@ecf.toronto.edu (AL RASHID SHAHIR) writes:
- >
- >That was my whole point. Who cares about the PERCENTAGE? Does percentage give
- >any kind of indication how much money is being lost? Jeez, now you went and
- >made me break my own rule... And by magnitude, I used the accepted worldwide
- >meaning: "absolute number"---> in this context. Go check a dictionary or
- >something...sheesh. Please, please read my posts more carefully next time.
-
- While it is true that more money is being lost due to Piracy on the PC, it is
- also true that more money is being MADE through software sales..
-
- And it would seem that the money being lost due to Atari piracy is MUCH MORE
- important to those companies than the money lost due to PC piracy.. How many
- software houses have STOPPED producing for the ST and are still going for the
- PC?? How many gave up the PC to join the 'lucrative' ST market??
-
- You are correct in your statement that in terms of absolute numbers, the
- PC market is far worse than the ST market..
- Your mistake is in the psychotic delusion that this fact has any useful value
- whatsoever..
-
- "1000 GM cars blow up spontaneously every year killing the passengers, while
- only 5 Ladas blow up every year."
-
- "REALLY?? I'll Take a Lada!!"
-
- "btw, did I mention that GM puts 10 million cars on the road every year and
- Lada puts out 7?"
-
- "No, but since the GM value is SO MUCH MORE in terms of absolute value, I'm
- sure I'm better off with a Lada!!"
-
- Here - have a Lada on me!! (or at least label your posts with a subject of
- "TOTALLY IGNORANT LIES" so I can KILL them..)
-
- Mattias
-
- --
- Mattias Hembruch
- >> My views do not necessarily reflect those of the TSE. <<
- E-mail: mattias@tse.asd.tse.ca
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