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Re: Piracy and the Amiga (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)

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From: Jonas Thorell
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 23:33
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>> Perhaps I'm the exception, but I have never once rec'd a version of any
>> program (aside from PD utils) on a cover disk that remained on my HD
>> for any length of time.

>Yeah, I probably shouldn't have made a sweeping generalisation like that
>without saying that's exactly what it is. Of course, many full versions
>of coverdisk packages are really poor.

>But others (Dir Opus 4, Cygnus Ed 3.5, for example) are very, very good
>programs that will probably stay on many people's hard drives. And those
>with both of those will probably not want another dir util or editor for
>a long while. I wonder how many Dir Opus 4 coverdisk owners actually
>upgraded to Dir Opus 5.

>Jolyon - Almathera

Perhaps not that many. I was tempted for a while until I got to try out #5.
Who said that progress is good?

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Subject: Re: Piracy and the Amiga (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)
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