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From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bundled Software
Message-ID: <1583@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Sun, 2-Aug-87 11:47:04 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  2 11:47:04 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 21:48:01 EDT
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Reply-To: page@swan.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) wrote:
>For $199 you get ... Wordperfect ... MaxiPlan 500 ... SuperBase ...
>Diga! ... DeluxePaint II ... CLIMate ... and a couple more things ...

>This is a *real* insofar as I saw what appeared to be an Official
>Announcement aimed at dealers, from Commodore, so let's hope.

I would be surprised if Commodore was this stupid.  Yes, these are
nice packages, and yes, it's great for the users, thus the dealers.

But if Commodore thinks the rest of the Amiga Developer community will
sit back and endorse this, they're wrong.  A couple of developers I
spoke with said if this goes through they'll leave the Amiga market
and go elsewhere, where the *market* decides what packages will make
it, not some blessing from the hardware vendor.

[Interesting that many developers are upset at Apple for a similar
proposed action... is it a conspiracy?]

This [rumored] action will *kill* any chance of any new Amiga product
development.  Do you think the wonderful MicroFiche Filer would have
materialized on the Amiga under these conditions?  I'd say not, and
the Amiga community would be the worse for it.

I don't have any affiliation with any of the above named products
or companies.  But I'm a commercial developer, and even though I
personally won't get burnt by this action, a lot of other Amiga
developers will.  It also make me fear future Commodore actions
to further alienate their developers.

This is the first I have heard of this; I hope it's just a nasty
rumor.

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.   page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}