Re: trading policy for IIe

[CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 11 Jun 2002 01:24:10 GMT, mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

>In both of these cases, Jeff, the only reason that a person would
>buy the new stuff is because it is a sufficient advance over what
>is already available that it warrants buying.  This is a sane policy.
>
>There is no merit in simply encouraging development of the same
>functionality over and over.  The point of new development is that it
>offers new functionality.
>
>In the event that a developer offers a piece of software that does
>something that a sufficient number of people need (because they
>can't already do it with existing software), for a price that they are
>willing to pay, then he or she is in business.

I agree and that is where the problem of having older software being
made available illegally comes in.  Current developers have to write
software that does more than what any previously available commercial
title did because people can just download an illegal copy of the
older software rather than getting the new software.

This is why most Apple II development lately has been internet related
because there is no existing Apple II software to do this and
developers figure that their time is better spent working on this
rather than spending their time writing something that many people
already have either legal of illegal copies of that does the same type
of thing.

>Jeff Blakeney replied:
>>And people wonder why Apple II software development has slowed down so
>>much.  :-)
>
>Don't you think it's reasonable that Apple II software development
>has slowed down because:

I'm sure there are a lot of reasons.  That is why I used the smiley at
the end of that remark.

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