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Re: WHO killed the Apple II???



In <7of7ej$1mv$1@holly.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, "Eric Heim" <chippys@earthlink.net> writes:

>Nobody has been pirated more than Microsoft. Piracy killed very little, and
>certainly didn't kill any hardware. Let's not forget people, Apple is a
>hardware company.  :o)

Well I can't argue about Microsoft much. They are an entrenched facet of
computing in most peoples lives. However the GS was a very niche market
and piracy has for a fact driven away software developers, and I'm not
neccessarily speaking of commercial developers, but shareware authors
as well.

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