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From: mn@atari.UUCP (Mike Nowicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Pirating on the ST
Keywords: ATARI PIRATING
Message-ID: <1511@atari.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 89 20:15:34 GMT
References: <4575@alvin.mcnc.org>
Reply-To: mn@atari.UUCP (Mike Nowicki)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <4575@alvin.mcnc.org> houser@mcnc.org (Kevin D. Houser) writes:
>
>	I believe that most of the complaints about pirating on the ST
>are a bull-s&!@ excuse for poor sales. 

  Try developing a program using your own sweat equity, spend a bunch of
money on packaging and advertising and then come back and tell me piracy
is a bullsh*t excuse. I did, got discouraged and came to work for Atari.

  The ST is a fun machine to use and program on and thus attracts users
who have a high degree of technical/programming skill. It also attracted
many former Color Computer users who are by far the worst pirates I've
ever encountered, well, second only to ham radio computerists.

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Michael Nowicki      Atari Corp.