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From: jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shareware Mac
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Date: 28 Nov 89 01:32:06 GMT
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In article <3268@brazos.Rice.edu> bro@eunomia.rice.edu (Douglas Monk) writes:

>3) Comparing David Small to Lotus is laughably self-serving, the kind of 
>defense that pirates sometimes make: "No one gets hurt, only some big
>business..." David Small is a small businessman trying to make a living while
>producing outstanding technical achievements on a machine that much of the
>world can easily afford to ignore. The market for STs in general is too small
>to take the existence of such guys for granted: if they get burned enough,
>they'll just go work somewhere else. We cannot afford that. Dave Small sells
>STs with his work, and that helps keep my machine viable.

I NEVER said that nobody would get hurt.  In fact, I'm sure that this would
take some business away from GBS.  However, I do not believe that David Small
deserves a monopoly on Mac emulators?  What happened to free competition?
I used "Lotus" as an example.  I could have said Antic.  Should nobody else
write a terminal program just because they wrote Flash??  I feel that if
someone else wants to put together a "Shareware Mac", (and of course that
they don't try to steal from David's work) more power to them! I don't think
that David's work should be monopolistic, just as I feel that Avante Garde's
PC-DITTO shouldn't have 100% control over the market for PC emulators.

	-Jeff

P.S.  No, I'm not a customer of GBS.  It's too pricey for me.  I do own
      PC-Ditto.  It sits on the shelf and keeps the dust off of my desk.
--
Jeff Beadles		jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM