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From: darweesh@zephyrus.crd.ge.com (Michael Darweesh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: SimWorld
Keywords: spam spam spam $69 spam spam spam
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Date: 15 Oct 90 15:14:52 GMT
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>$69 Dollars?!?!?  What, is the cost of developing and marketing software
>linked to oil prices, or something?  At least they chose a number suggestive
>of what they are doing to the buyer.  Nothing like truth in advertising.

Yea, well, I could go into a sorta long explaination of pirating and stuff, but
I'll keep it short:

If no one pirated software, then the price would go down substantially.  One
of the major reasons that there are so few Macintosh games (relatively 
speaking), is that Macintosh programs are so easy to copy in most cases and
therefore many people pirate their favorite games instead of buying them.

Disclaimer thingy:  I don't mean to single-out or blame the person whom I
	quoted, nor do I claim to be perfect or know everything.  And, by the
	way, my employer has nothing to do with this conversation.

-Mike Darweesh
weesh@crd.ge.com