Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Where's the software? Message-ID: Date: 6 Jul 90 18:52:58 GMT References: <90U702Unb2ZK01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1990Jun25.104017.803@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <31356@cup.portal.com> <1990Jul4.064216.21027@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Distribution: na Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG's message of 4 Jul 90 06:42:16 GMT In article <1990Jul4.064216.21027@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: What I notice is that every problem that is brought up has a solution, but that people would rather live with the rotten software market the Amiga has than to suffer what are after all very modest inconveniences. I find the lack of robust business software for the Amiga a _major_ inconvenience, and ease of piracy the most obvious cause. What I notice is that people would rather bitch about the rotten software market than get involved in getting it written. You can't find software you want? Write the spec and mail it to me; I'll mail you back a time/cost plan for writing it. Given your feelings on intellectual property, I expect you'll write the spec and not just say "a Lotus 1-2-3 clone". Given the recent turn in Lotus's lawsuit, doing that would also cost much extra $'s. On the other side, if that "minor inconvenience" makes the software unusable (like the "minor inconvenience" of having to run MS-DOS), then your plan would make the software market _much_ worse than it is now for the people involved. You know, I'm one of them. With any luck, I'll be working on my 3rd machine in as many months soon....