Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!uwm.edu!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!md41 From: md41@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Marcus Dolengo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Wanting to snub Emulators Message-ID: <1990Oct28.221242.27930@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 28 Oct 90 22:12:42 GMT References: <1990Oct27.190254.8511@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Sender: news@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 64 In article jkain@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Kain) writes: >wieser@cs-sun-fsa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Bernhard Wieser) writes: > >>2)Let's say I wrote a wonderful cad/cam package for various machines. >>I spent resources to support my software on multiple >>machines, using the strengths of each. So Joe user, who might have >>both an Amiga and a Mac has no reason to support me and my >>efforts if they have an emulator. > >"Joe User" can support anyone he wants. It's his money. He's giving >it to you. Be happy about it. I still dont understand where he gets the idea that "joe user" has no reason to support him. I mean if I had an Amiga with Amax and a mac, and chose to buy the mac version of his software rather than the amiga version, how does he suddenly get the stupid notion I am not supporting him? or is money not enough? >>3)When I write software, I do so on a machine which supports the task >> well. If I don't write it for the Amiga, I may not want it running on the >>Amiga. Software supports the machine it was written for. >>Why should I (the developer) support users who don't support me? > >By buying your package, he is supporting you! People don't support >software authors (directly) by their choice of hardware platforms! >If someone pays tens, hundreds, or thousands of dollars for a service >I provide, I feel that my obligation is to do my best to ensure that >this person will be happy enough to do it again someday. The person with the emulator IS supporting you, while YOU are not supporting HIM. >>Emulation can kill good ideas by stealing markets; >>it doesn't really create them, does it? > >Emulation doesn't "steal" markets - it provides competition. Emulation >creates a market for better emulators. Which provides even better >competition. Not to mention competition because it could provide a better/cheaper computer. if computer X could emulate comp. Y for a much lower price, people could use X and the emulator instead of Y. > >Comments?? Anyone?? > >Jeff Kain > >-- >"Quoth the raven, 'Eat my shorts!'" > > -Edgar Allen Poe / Bart Simpson >"We create a leader by locating one in the crowd who is standing up. [...] We >designate this victim as a 'stand-up guy' by the simple expedient of >sitting down around him." > -Arturo Binewski ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o o | This Space For Rent Only Amiga!! // << md41@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu >> | Amerikkka's Most Wanted \\ // /> <\ | \X/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I think out actions _show_ what's in our hearts." Hobbes Who's the Mack...