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Jolyon Ralph wrote:
> 
> Many ex-Amiga publishers, who are now publishing on different platforms,
> are giving away (almost) their products for coverdisk use, as they don't
> care about the Amiga market any more. Existing publishers can't compete
> with 'free' products, so they have to stop development on their own
> products. This leads to a freeze in Amiga software - no one can afford to
> further develop and enhance products and newer versions of your favourite
> programs just don't appear.
> 
> Jolyon

this problem could EASILY be solved with no one having to lose anything. how you may ask,
well, it's simple, since the magazine publishers sell in volumes and can thus practically
give coverdisks for 'free' without suffering any loss, the software developers have to raise
their prices when they sell them to the magazines publishers taking into account that
the magazines actually give away their products for almost nothing. raising the price
will eventually raise the price of the coverdisks, and will make the consumer think twice
when purchasing the product from the magazines, provided the price stays the same from the
developer to the end-user. raising the prices is the ONLY way the Amiga software market
will ever come alive and be prosperous once again. ofcourse this will happen simultansly
as new hardware developments come from AT. software alone isn't enough, good hardware support
is a MUST if consumers are to continue buying Amiga hardware and therefore software.
staying with the currently low-tech Amiga's won't help the software market for one bit.
the prices of this new hardware must be reasonable though, otherwise it would back-fire on
everybody, hardware as well as software developers.

Avi Lev.