How much pirated Amiga software did you have?

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Having invested in application software development and distribution for the Amiga platform only to find it being copied between users I learned early on, make the money from the hardware, normal users cannot copy that.

Still it was true piracy helped to kill the Amiga application market but was not the only reason for its downfall, but it was the reason for software vendors moving to other platforms. As for games, well I never got involved in games.

So here is a question, if a company invested in bringing software back to the Amiga would people copy that. Do people believe software has a value or a developers hard work should be given away for free. All I can say is I hope that chefs out there will cook me dinner for free, and builders sort my roof out for free :-)

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Ok, note to self.

DO NOT WRITE SOFTWARE FOR AMIGA PLATFORMS ;-)

Hardware supported software development only from me then, even Siamese system had a dongle which was the switcher.

This is why I cannot get people like Paul Nolan and others to come back.

Sigh.

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Whilst I have been caught on the side of losing money to pirates I will say this, not in support of them, but as a consequence. All of the wonderful software that was written by truly talented Amiga coders would have been lost if they had not be cracked and saved in a small number of archives.

However, what we are getting in the Amiga community is a number of ports of software from other platforms instead of original and exciting software development because it is less work.

In the near future all we will get is software that is supporting hardware gadgets, and software from people willing to work for free.

As usual this subject is not black or white.