Re: 1WSW folder - Ground Mirror - GONE!

[johnlb@primenet.com (John Bowling)]

In article <4m3m1o$pgb@blackice.winternet.com>,
Mark Miller <markm@winternet.com> wrote:
>In article <4m34ab$nvr@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
>RUBYWAND <rubywand@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>     Yes; we ethical Apple II users must stick together. Unlike _some_
>>here, we have no wicked memories of lugging Apples, shoe boxes of
>>diskettes, and those bulky Amdek Color-1 monitors to Apple User Group
>>"basement meetings".
>
>[ poor attempt at witty sarcasm deleted ]
>
>Welcome to the 90s.. those days are long gone.  Heh, do you expect
>programmers to develop new software for you and Dr. Tom to pirate?
>The Apple II community needs a strong ethical usergroup to encourage
>new software to be developed.. sadly, it's too late.

Yes, it was too late 5 years ago.  What new has been developed since then?

A few things from France, mostly show and tell.
A few updates to existing software.

A vast lack of updates for software that desperately needs it!
The impossibility of replacing worn out disks that were copy protected!

And, several things that are NOT pirate software but freeware via 1WSW.
Some of which are being updated!

No, programmers have NOT done anything new.  Not because of pirating 
(there is a HELL of a lot MORE pirating done in the IBM world, percentage 
wise, then was EVER done in the A2 world!!!!), but because they can't 
recover several thousands of dollars in costs even if they sold a $100 
copy to every A2 user that still exists!  If they sell an equivelent 
package to under 1% of the IBM users, for $10 each, they would make 
millions!  And a pirate rate of 2 to 1 wouldn't hurt them at all!
(I don't mean to imply that they would like it.)

No one is going to make money in the A2 world anymore, much as we hate
the growing lack of support.  There are not enough of us left to make it
profitable anymore.

John

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