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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.141337.9969@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <7906@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Mar14.233243.29563@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <7920@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 14:13:37 GMT

In article <7920@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Corey) writes:
> Well actually this is a very serious point about the Amiga.  The main reason
> "big" software developers ignore the amiga.  The Amiga has the most pirates
> of any platform.

Aren't you thinking of the Apple-II and Commodore 64?

Or the Atari ST?

> We'll see what the judge rules.  Paperback already lost to Lotus on look and
> feel.

Just because the law may be perverted to protect crap like "look and feel"
doesn't mean it's right. Look around you. It's legal for the government to
seize property without trial (Operation Sun Devil, War on Drugs, RICO), but
it's illegal to sell sexual favors. Law is a morass of virtue and vice, the
result of the chance colission of morality, special interests, and an
occasional enlightened statesman or jurist.

> Again, we'll see.  Anyone can write code.  It takes a little more to do it
> with a good interface.  NeXT has a great interface.  They innovated,
> Microsoft didn't.

Microsoft Windows has about the best user interface I've seen on any machine.
It's the only one reasonably usable from the mouse *or* the keyboard...
everyone else has made a stab at supporting keyboard control (and don't tell
me Apple does any better at this... they're not), Microsoft has made it work.

> What is the weather like on your planet?

Ah, abuse.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
