On 31-Oct-02,* Mahendra Tallur*, of Planet Eros, wrote these Wise Words:
> My conclusion is just, try to support less-known authors /
> products, rather than most advertised ones / already
> over-rewarded ones... etc...
>
> And, of course, register you amiga sharewares as much as possible ;)
I concur with this most wholeheartedly!!!
I have lots of shareware programs I have purchased for the Amiga,
and have never been sorry.
I also purchased VuePrint for my Pentium system, and have NEVER
been sorry... now, it is much better known than it was 4 or 5
years ago when I bought it.
I also have a number of shareware programs I use on my iMac at
work. Most are fine, but one, I fear, may not like out LAN,
which is run with AppleShare... I am the idiot who maintains
the hub for the school, and trying to keep 60+ Macs happy
is challenging at the best of times... especially when some
run OS9, some OS9.1 and some OS9.2... the school district will
not let me install OSX, although it sounds like Jaguar is the
bees-knees as far as connectivity is concerned. : )))
But, for me, most shareware has really been excellent stuff.
I have never been sorry with MUI, or Miami or Voyager (although
I seldom use it), or AWeb (although I use it little as well... I
personally like the GUI of IB... and have had very, very few
crashes on my system compared to the others. : / )
I hate the idea of supporting companies like MicroSoft!!! I
wish someone could pirate them out of existance... but that
is just a personl bias.
Gil
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gil Knutson, Sardis, BC, Canada ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Amiga A4000/040/2+16+128 RAM - OS3.9 - 6.4 Gig Quantum - 512 MB Seagate
2-240MB Quantums - Zip250 - CyberVision64/3D - GVC 56K speakerphone
MultiFaceCardIII - Yamaha CD-RW - Toshiba CD - Lexmark 4039 12R w/16MB
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Amiga Shall Inherit The Earth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gil's Next Deep Thought:
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more
'user-friendly'.... Their best approach, so far, has been to take all
the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover.
-- Bill Gates
Stuff below is possibly useless... : )
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