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From: hadeishi@husc7.HARVARD.EDU (Mitsuharu Hadeishi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Amiga's Worst Enemy
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Date: Fri, 8-May-87 15:05:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  8 15:05:16 1987
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Keywords: Shareware is bad for your health
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Summary:



	I think it would be wise if some of the clearly talented and
well-informed Amiga shareware/PD programmers would spend some of their
valuable time on well-designed, fully-debugged, highly useful
commercial products.  I'm not saying go out and gouge the public,
(there isn't all that much of a public to gouge, and I hardly expect
they'd volunteer to get gouged by you) but to spend some time
producing something which would not only be useful to others and
would give you the ability to continue to eat while doing so.
Money is a kind of fantasy substance which makes trading easier;
for someone to give you some of his "money" in return for some of
your effort is just the whole point of money in the first place.
That's pretty much what money is supposed to be used for (this is not,
of course, the model used by most high-finance people or investment
bankers; they make money the new-fashioned way, they conjure it out
of nowhere.)  So, why not ask people to give you some of their
eating-power to you, so you can eat while providing a service?
The Amiga has TONS of high-quality PD/shareware; just look at the
massive tomes of Fish disks that contain almost as high as one
program per disk that I actually can use regularly, which is
a miracle as shareware goes.  What we LACK is high-quality commercial
software; software which pays attention to DESIGN.  Tools people
can use, ordinary non-hackers, which require a lot of design work, which
means MONEY.

				-Mitsu