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From: David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Bodega Bay Info Inside!
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Date: 26 Feb 91 20:36:32 GMT
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 SW> Yes, I've noticed this too!  The Apple buyers wear geek-suits and 
 SW> the IBM 
 SW> buyers wear monkey-suits!  Where do they find those uniforms?  Amiga 
 SW> buyers 
 SW> are never uniformed!  This is terrible for the image of 
 SW> Commodore!!!!!!!!! 
 SW> We are falling behind in the computer buyer's uniform race!  If 
 SW> Commodore 
 SW> would just get it together and publish a spec for this, we wouldn't 
 SW> have 
 SW> this glaring gap!  ...and another thing!.. th#s [is^jkl a 
 
Probably because noone makes public domain uniforms.  Amiga owners
hate anything they have to pay for, other than hardware.  I think it
comes from years of 64 piracy and a sudden relief from guilt when they
discovered public domain software (and shareware, which to most is the
same thing).  They just kept the urge never to buy anything.
 
Not to say that IBM users (non professionals, mostly) are much the same 
way, but its still a lot more common, IMHO, for MS-DOS users to slap 
down three hundred and fifty bucks for a good word pro.  Why are there 
no good word-pros (I mean REALLY good, not usable) for the Amiga?  
Because noone would pay for it, so noone produces it.  
 
I'd kill for Word for Windows and Excel in Amiga versions, but if they 
were ever produced, the only people who would benefit would likely be 
blank disk manufacturers and photocopy machine owners.  (I own ProWrite 
and SuperBase as well as both the above...)
 
I'm not trying to start the "unstoppable thread".  I am, after all, an 
Amiga owner and enthusiast.  It's just that I don't think our machine 
will really ever get the support it needs until that support starts with 
the users.  And that support doesn't come from letter writing or flag 
waving, it comes from speaking with your dollars, since that's what 
software companies want, need, and look for.
 
Somebody please redirect this in your followup... we can't edit the 
followup line here.  Thanks.



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