First Official Screenshot of AmiGift

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Kazaa is evil.

Just wait 'till a surge of Amiga developers start work but then stop when everyone starts sharing them on Kazaa...

My guess is that history will repeat itself.

- Paul

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@Wilse:

You can justify it all you want... I'm just dissapointed. But not suprised.

I'm just sad that people think the Amiga *needs* this.

In a perfect world, the Amiga platform would attract users out of sheer brilliance; instead, if Amigift is anything to go by,  we're just emulating stuff you can already get on other platforms...  don't get me wrong some of them are necessary, just like running water in your house, but still..

All I'm saying is, people can download kiddie porn, MP3z, and Adobe Photoshop on any old computer. They're hardly going to buy an Amiga to do this. And if they do: they will come to the Amiga expecting to get all their software for free, just like on Wintel. They will pirate software like the animals they are, just like they do in Wintel land. They will not have any concept of community responsibility.

Amiga is doomed, as usual...

- Paul

(perhaps I'm just depressed after watching Donnie Darko... )

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@Paul_Gadd:

The users are to blame, not this software.

I didn't blame the software.

- Paul

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Some of you are misreading what I meant to say.

I'm talking about the *reaction* you guys had to this software being made available, not that fact that it *is* available. I have nothing against the author, and I'm sure the author doesn't care what I or anyone else thinks anyway (we're all free to port whatever software we want). I'm just dissapointed that people think this software is so important and necessary.

@opi:

So, You say we don't need this ,,emulated'' stuff? Like Photoshop-alike programs? MP3 Players? Other Media players? No? Amiga/Pegasos is a computer. It should be capable to run as mutch software as possible. Graphics, music, network software and yes, p2p clients also!

I'm not upset at the P2P client. I'm upset that, judging by the reactions of the people here, all the other software you mentioned will just get pirated anyway.

It makes me cringe when I see people pirate the Adobe Distiller suite, just so they can print PDFs. What about CutePDF printer? And Office XP when they could use OpenOffice. Or Adobe Photoshop when they could use The Gimp.

Sure, the free alternatives aren't as powerful, but you can afford them. And 90% of people don't even use 10% of the features of the commercial software anyway.

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    Amiga is doomed, as usual...



Without software -- yes.

It scares me that you think Amiga is doomed without this software. Perhaps you meant software in general. In that case I would agree; but a P2P client can have no possible positive effect on software sales, can it? So in this case, whilst I appreciate the author's efforts in general, I fear that because of the mentality our users have, the Amiga platform could certainly live without it.

- Paul