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From: farren@sat.com (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.183833.28485@sat.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 18:38:33 GMT
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blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu writes:
>Well actually this is a very serious point about the Amiga.  The main reason
>"big" software developers ignore the amiga.  The Amiga has the most pirates
>of any platform.  They don't pirate to "try and buy".  They just pirate.

Oh, please.  The Amiga doesn't have the "most pirates", by my experience.
I don't know where you came up with that idea, but my own investigations
show that IBM systems have by far the "most pirates", and that that is due
to the simple fact that there are more of those systems out there.  The
actual percentage of piracy seems to be remarkably similar from system to
system - I know that I have _never_ seen a purchased copy of Lode Runner
on the Mac, just as I have rarely seen a purchased copy of WordStar on the
IBM.

The reason "big" software developers ignore the Amiga (if they do, which
I also question - I know, for example, that Aldus once seriously investigated
the idea of porting PageMaker to the Ami) is because they perceive the
Amiga business market as being small.  Which it is, unfortunately for us.
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| Michael J. Farren                                      farren@sat.com |
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