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From: boris@world.std.com (Boris Levitin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Snubbing Emulators (not Amiga)
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.071457.5572@world.std.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 07:14:57 GMT
References: <1990Oct28.204712.4261@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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Berhnard Wieser continues defending his right to A-Max-proof his MacOS
software.  His arguments have already been dealt with, and, besides, it seems
that my fellow Mac users would like no more Amiga-related discussion in
this newsgroup, so I'll make just one comment:

Bernhard, you will find many who will agree with your professed desire not
to have religious wars and infighting over whose hardware platform is best.
I feel this way too.  That's why I am puzzled by your irrationally petty
and vindictive wish to sabotage the few people who might attempt to run your
programs on their A-Max-equipped Amigas.  If you don't treat your customers
graciously but let them know that you view them as, essentially, cash cows,
they will do to you what they have already done to publishers who copy-
protected their software or put in hardware locks: buy from the competition
instead.  Besides, A-Max is hardly a threat: I know just one person who
even uses a Macintosh emulator, one on the Atari.  Your software would have
to be pretty popular before emulators would register even a bleep on your
balance sheet.  So, let the A-Max users live in peace, and, as they supposedly 
say in California, "chill."

Back to Mac-related topics...

Boris Levitin
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