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From: darekm@microsoft.UUCP (Darek MIHOCKA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Quick ST II Challenge!
Message-ID: <58392@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 90 18:40:10 GMT
Reply-To: darekm@microsoft.UUCP (Darek MIHOCKA)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:
>...  By using a free medium (Usenet), to advertise your commercial product
>you are taking advantage of all those sites out there who pay for the
>net to operate.  How about giving them a royalty from future sales to
>cover their blood, sweat and tears in keeping Usenet alive? :-)
>Hehe, if the above sounds ridiculous to you (and I suspect it does), I
>suggest you go back and re-read your post that I'm referring to for a 
>REAL laugh.
>
>>- Darek
>
>Cheers,
>
>Chris
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>Chris Mauritz                 |D{r det finns en |l, finns
>cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu   |det en plan!
>(c)All rights reserved.       |
>Send flames to /dev/null      |
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My dear pathetic Mr. Mauritz. You obviously cannot read English. My original
10K message containing the Quick ST II Challenge was never sent. I thought I
did, but I guess I didn't. Instead, I posted a much shorter message saying
that anyone who wants to find out more can reply to the message. That way I
save a lot of bandwidth by not posting it here. I also am not emailing out
copies of the demo because it is about 150K in size and that too would waste
a lot of bandwidth. So even though in the last few days I have received 
dozens of email requests to email the demo, I am instead offering to send a
disk, AT MY EXPENSE, to anyone who wants it. I have posted the exact same offer
on Compuserve and GEnie. So I have "wasted" less bandwidth than you, who
decided to repost my entire my entire message, plus your pathetic little
mindless comments. Just because this is a free network does not mean we are
limited to discussing only public domain software. What I posted was an
announcement, similar to the announcements you will find from other commercial
software vendors on bulletin boards, or bundled in an issue of ST Report or
ZNET. You obviously cannot be reasoned with since your signature directs me
to send flames to /dev/null, so if you have some problems with this go to hell.
I know it is a new concept for you to grasp: someone giving away free demos on
a disk without charging for it and no strings attached. Considering how many
people responded to my posting, and how many of them used words like "ok,
I'll bite" it proves my original statement that most people on the net are
to cheap to consider buying commercial software, and it is only by offering
it to them on a silver plate that they respond. I accept that as a fact of
life in the Atari world, and offering a free demo is my way of satisfying
both me and the users. I could weasel out and start crying that the ST
software market is dead and hopeless, but it is not. Quick ST II is one of
the best selling pieces of software for the Atari ST, ever. That is why I
can afford to sell it for $20 and still make a healty profit. So please stop
trying to kill the commercial software market. Please? If you have anything
further to say, please do so in private email and stop wasting bandwidth.

- Darek

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