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In article <912@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> singer@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Matthew R. Singer) writes:
>What I am not doing is any ST specific development.  I had plans for
>a multi-user bbs system based on the ST, but there is no reason to 
>do so.  
>
>FoReM ST will stay consistant with the single user IBM PC version as
>it is source code compatible for both the main bbs and the FoReM Net
> network mail system.  When the multi-user 286/386 version comes
>out later this year there will be no effort to have it run on the
>ST.  Too few sales and too much piracy.
>
>
>Matt Singer
>Commnet Systems

From many people I've talked to, Matt echoes the feelings of a large
number of ST developers.   I think it's a darned shame, and really
says something about Atari and the future of the ST.   For all of us
that have dumped $$$ into this, we're the ones that really suffer.

As Atari loses developers and product support, those of us with STs
are getting stung; and Atari still has big $$$ in the bank that they
don't want to spend to improve things.  I just can't figure it.

The ST can't attract big companies and Atari won't help the smaller
companies that took a big risk developing for the ST.  And in the
end, it's the ST owner that gets screwed, as companies are forced to
drop their support for Atari, and many end up going out of business.

But then next year Atari announces a new product and sells a bundle
to the next generation of suckers (those that haven't been burned yet).
A new pile of hopefull software developers work their b*tts off to get
some new nifty software developed (with little or no help from Atari)
and Atari makes a ton of $$$ off the deal, at everybody elses expense!

I wish Matt all the best!


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