Re: ANN: Retiring from A2 world - Good Bye All!

[Stephen Shaw <stephen@apple2.org.invalid.za>]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 05:05:55 +0000, Ruud Dingemans wrote:

> Gary R. Utter wrote:
>
>> That's your opinion, based on no facts whatsoever. What I said was not
>> opinion, it is fact.
>
> As someone recently said: that's a good argument when we used it on the
> playground of kiddie school, back then.
>
>
>>>Oh yeah, piracy was rampant in the PC world, yet PC developers thrived.
>
>
> Whether you like it or not, he has a good and valid point here.
>
> In fact, it's kinda the point. The Commodore 64 was in the same
> situation, piracy all over the place, and that certainly didn't kill it
> either (obsolescence and Commodore did).

Interesting point - Commodore and Apple are American companies, I wonder if
a European country would have done the same? I mean the British still have
tea, rugby, The Queen, Reliant Robin(s), Terry Wogan, John Peel, Rowan 
Atkinson, crumbling castles... I think if Apple had been of European origin
it might still be in production....?

>
>
>> I think you are either being delibertely obtuse or you are a moron.
>
> Now you're getting into personal abuse, like it happened here so many
> times before, just because someone came to another conclusion than you.
> A shame, that. Some more self-control would be nice in public spaces.
>
>> We are not talking about todays market, we are talking about the market of
>> 10-12 years ago.
>
> Correction: he WAS talking about *todays* market, while you chose to
> reply with regard to the situation of ten years ago.
>
>>>historical interest, but there's very little money in it. Get over it.
>
>> Of course there is no money in it, but I'm not arguing against piracy,
>
> Hm, I have some doubts about that...
>
>> who rabidly oppose piracy for a hobbyist platform. It has nothing in
>> particular to do with the world today, and everything to do with the
>> world of a decade ago. It's a grudge match, a vendetta,
>
>
> Yeah, and one that should've died ages ago, I'd say. Let it go. You'll
> sleep better.
>
> Nobody would require ya to like Turley, who did good things as well as
> bad, but given the virtually non-existant AppleII market of today he
> can't do much damage anymore either. The people who do appreciate 'new'
> AII software coming out are willing to pay for it anyhow.
>
> Let it rest.
>
> Regards, Rudy

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