Re: WHO killed the Apple II???

[sirthomas@aol.comyadayada (SirThomas)]

>From: mystix@direct.ca  (Herbert Fung)
>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.

I can't speak for all the rest of the programmers out there; but for me if I'm
going to write software to pay the bills, I'm going to write it for the largest
market available and make some money.  If I write software for the Apple II
market, I'm doing it out of a labor of love, not to eat!


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