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Date: 27 May 1989, 15:42:42 SET
From: Cornelius Caesar          BITNET / EARN:       I0908    at DKAFHS1
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I just wanted to pass on the following information:

The June 1989 issue of ST Magazin (german) prints an interview (p. 154) with
Gilman Louie, programmer of 'F16 Falcon'. At one point he mentions that
only few companies in the USA are developing software for the ST
because of pirating.
Then: (Quotation, translated:)

"In the USA there is nearly only pirating on the ST. The newest software
 from Europe is distributed so fast over pirate boards that it is not worth
 selling software. In the first month after the release of Falcon we
 sold 40000 copies of the IBM version, 30000 of the MacIntosh version
 and still 10000 for the Amiga. For the ST there were only 3000 copies
 sold in the same time. In Europe the situation is different, of course.
 There are much more ST users and they copy less. If this were not so
 there wouldn't have been a ST version." ...

I regret possible misunderstandings due to a bad translation, but the
main ideas are o.k.

I don't know the original date of this interview but clearly the recent
discussion about this topic has not come through to Spectrum Holobyte.

Cornelius