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From: harryk@bucsb.UUCP (Harry Karayiannis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Shareware MAC
Keywords: GCR, Shareware MAC, competition, ST community
Message-ID: <100@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 89 18:44:32 GMT
Reply-To: harryk@bucsb.UUCP (Harry Karayiannis)
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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  Guys, I'm really surprised from the way a lot of people faced the possibility
of a Shareware MAC emulation for the ST! I think the idea is great, and I don't
see any reason for discouraging it! We live in a FREE(?) country, don't we? Any
one is free to write any program he wants and distribute it in any way he likes
I don't understand the logic of "a shareware mac would hurt David Small and 
thus the ST community". Small has done a GREAT job with the GCR, but it doesn't
give him the right to have the monopoly of the MAC emulators on the ST
  The german guys who wrote this shareware MAC, have every right to support the
ir efforts. They 've probably spent as many hours as D.Small has, in order to
finish their emulator;why should David be the king of Mac emulators for the ST?
If this is the way things should be, then every Software House would make an
application knowing that noone else will write something similar..and thus
there is no reason for them to upgrade their product as often as they should!
  Competition forces authors to do their best. Take Lotus 1 2 3, as an example:
  it was the #1 bussines package, until Excel came out! Almost everyone accep-
  ted that Excel was better than Lotus...and some months later Lotus 1 2 3
  announced the latest version of the progarm which is AWSOME!
You see guys, that's the way it goes! The Sharware MAC will HELP the ST world
because it will force D.Small to create something even more advanced than GCR.

  There is something more! Some people (like me) don't want to purchase the GCR
just because they don't need it desperately, and they don't have $400 to spend!
If I wanted a MAC, I would have bought one in the first place!I'm oversatisfied
from my MEGA2. I 'm not saying that I don't like MAC emulators (i love 'em) but
I don't want to spend $400 to get one! A shareware MAC would give me the chance
to use a MAC for as much money I think it is worth it!

  (The reasons for which I'd like to use a MAC are:
   1. to play some PD games (i have a monochrome monitor, you know) during the
      breaks from my programming projects.

   2. to get familiar with the MAC enviroment

   3. if i find it useful,I may consider to port some of my programs to the MAC

   IMHO it is not worth $400 just for these 3 things)

So, YES I will support the ALADIN, for the reasons I stated above, because I've
seen an earlier ALADIN version running, and because Germans have proved they lo
ve the ST and their software is almost perfect (Tempus, Modula-2,LABEL-EXPRESS)

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to avoid any misunderstanding, I must state that:

1. I'm not German....I'm Greek

2. I have nothing to do with the ALADIN authors (and of course I don't take $
   from them)

3. (to D.Small)
      I think you understand what I tried to say! I have nothing against you;
   on the contrary, I think you are a real pro and I respect and admire you!
   GCR is awsome, and reading some of your published interviews, i say you are
   a PLUS for the ST community! I hope you agree it's awful that some people
   use your name to prevent others from getting recognition for their work!!!

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                                           I thank you all
				       for the time you spent
					to read this article

					  HARRY KARAYIANNIS
                                          3rd year Computer Science
                                          Boston University