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From: durham@cme.nbs.gov (James H. Durham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!????
Message-ID: <1436@aws.cme.nbs.gov>
Date: 24 Jul 89 14:12:16 GMT
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In article <306@wet.UUCP>, logic@wet.UUCP (Henry Kwan) writes:
> What strikes me as funny is that every computer owner likes to point
> fingers.  When you ask someone on the ST newsgroup about piracy, they say
> that piracy on the ST is low compared to the other machines.  When you ask
> someone on the Amiga newsgroup about piracy, they say that piracy on the
> Amiga is low compared to the other machines.  And so on and so on.  If this
> is the case, piracy isn't a problem at all, eh?
> 
> Why not be realistic and say that piracy is a problem equally on all
> machines?

This really isn't necessarily true.  I have owned both Amiga and Atari ST
computer systems I know for a fact (although I can't offer evidence) that
piracy is much more rampant on the atari than it is on the Amiga, and I think
it stems from where the first Amiga and Atari ST users were coming from.
When the Amiga came out, more "respectable" computer users seemed to be buying
it, and that's why better software  was written for it, because of this
slightly more professional group.  This "image" of the Amiga produced (in my
eyes) somewhat of a snobbishness among Amiga owners... that their machine was 
better.  This aside, the Amiga costed more and was geared for a more
sophisticated market than the ST initially... remember the Amiga used to be
a "business machine?"  Well, the lack of this image on the Atari was the 
breeding ground for hackers:  The cost was right, and the machine was baginning
to be considered a mere "game machine."  

Summarily, I'm not saying that piracy on the Amiga is less than on other
machines, bacuse it isn't, but I AM saying that piracy on the ST is unusually
high...  Oh well, just the lone thoughts of this programmer... any friendly
"counter-thoughts?"