| From: | Gareth Griffiths |
| Date: | 11 Aug 2000 at 11:55:04 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
> If I think about it. I bet if we all totalled up the software we have
> on out Miggy's, I bet all of us are running freeware, shareware,
> giftware, etc more than commercial software.
Well, not all of us, but a fair proportion. I know I am.
> MUI, MCP, Birdie, Toolmanager, YAM - all non-commercial and
> incredibly popular.
Indeed. I think since the demise of Commodore it has really been the
'bedroom coders' that have kept the computer going. Believe it or not, the
Spectrum market is not totally dead at all. A quick glance on the World Of
Spectrum shows that software is still being released for it. However, if the
Amiga is to become a mainstream machine again, we do really need commercial
software - stuff that we can justify advertising in places other than Amiga
press.
> Compare it to MS Office, Windows - all commercial, hated and crap.
You got that right :-) The only thing I like from MS Office is Access. It
may not be the most powerful DBMS available - but it's almost certainly the
easiest to use, that I've used anyway.
Cheers,
GazChap.
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