Re: No rights, was Re: Syndicomm Scam

[Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, nyder wrote:

> They sell more of them if priced them decent.  I'd love to try out the 
> Orca C cross development stuff, but at over $100?  Fuck that.  I can 
> download Aztec C, program via a emulator for free.
>
> I wonder exactly how much money they are making off a product that may 
> or may not get shipped, when it's so expensive, on a dying platform?
>
> I'm not saying people shouldn't get paid, I'm saying the 80's and 90's 
> are over, we are into 2013 now, get with it.  No one pays that much of 
> old software, not for TRS-80's, not for C64, not for Amiga's (excluding 
> the latest versions, not sure wtf they are doing), not for the 
> Sinclairs, not for any old computers.
>
> Actually, the defense of this doesn't surprise me.  It's seems this 
> community likes getting ripped off based on how many people will throw 
> money down on preorders of anyone who says they have Apple II cards for 
> sale, many accelerators.  And you want to defend a person/company who 
> doesn't ship on time, if at all, and charges some horrible prices on old 
> software.

I'm glad someone else came out and said this.

For example, I don't think there's a single 65816 C compiler targetting 
the Apple IIgs that doesn't cost at least one limb - and the documentation 
for the firmware costs a couple limbs.  Being on a fixed income due to 
disability makes food more important than that and I'd prolly be able to 
do a lot more with the ][ line if there weren't so much being kept solely 
in the hands of hoarders who have no interest in doing anything unless it 
gets them lots of green in the process.

Sane costs, like less than $20, I'd consider it.

-uso.