Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!itivax!abaa!esker From: esker@abaa.uucp (Lawrence Esker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!???? Summary: I can't believe the extent of this thread. Message-ID: <625@uranus.UUCP> Date: 1 Aug 89 01:26:16 GMT References: <9180.AA9180@heimat> <1989Jul30.210112.10525@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Reply-To: esker@uranus.UUCP (Lawrence Esker) Organization: Allen Bradley, Ann Arbor Lines: 54 UUCP-Path: uunet!frith!eecae!uranus!esker >$>I was at a SF convention a couple of months ago. They had a "computer room", >$>as some of them do. Inside were three or four Amigas. > >$>Also inside were some THOUSAND 3.5" diskettes, with every program ever >$>conceived for the Amiga on them. And among them was not ONE original disk. >$>NOT ONE. > >Covert Contraption, in Southfield Michigan. It was held at the Michigan Inn. I wanted to avoid commenting on this thread, but after seeing the above, I couldn't resist. I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS WHOLE THREAD STARTED BECAUSE HE WENT TO A CONVENTION THAT SPECIALISES IN PIRATING SOFTWARE. JUST LOOK AT THE NAME! This one person took what he saw at a pirate convention and automatically assumed the Amiga market specialises in pirating software. Go back to Philosophy 101. Generalizing from the specific is a logic FOOBAR. Another logic FOOBAR is to assume that if people had to buy the software they pirate, they would. The so called "lost revenue" due to pirating is a fictitious number. If pirating did not exist, additional developer income would be a much smaller percentage of this number, if it exists at all. Personally, all the software I have ever pirated (except my C compiler), I would not touch with a garbage bag full of AmigaDOS v1.0 workbench disks if I had to buy them. Every one of them is in the deepest dungeons of my junk drawer, and erased whenever I need a spare disk. In several cases, I actually bought the product because I had a chance to pirate it first and I liked it and a newer upgrade was on the market (Negative Lost Revenue?) For the C compiler, two of my friends and I split the cost of one package. Each of us would have went PD if we did not belive in occasiosional pirating. Again, the developer gained a sale in real dollars even though he lost two sales in fictitious dollars due to pirating. No, I do not condone mass pirating. I do not believe mass pirating is any worse on the Amiga than any other 'personal' computer. I place mass piraters, who pirate for the sport of it, on the same level of scum as those who write and release viruses. I do believe people who treat shitty software as shareware, pay for it only if they like it, is the only way to get the garbage-product-profit-only software vendors out of the Amiga market. -- ---------- Lawrence W. Esker ---------- ^k i /From: flamer@name/j :wq \ * * * ******* / \ * * * * * / Sr. Hardware/ASIC Design Engineer \ * * * * * ***** / Allen-Bradley Communications Div. \ * * * * * * / Phone: (313)668-2500 (313)973-8561 \ ******* * * ******* / Compuserve: ?????-???? ----------------------------- (A new job for LWE, please!) UseNet Smart: esker@abaa.uucp or abaa!esker@itivax.iti.org UseNet Other: __!uunet!mimsy!rutgers!citi!itivax!abaa!esker Nothing left to do but :-) :-) :-)