EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> I'm playing devil's advocate a little bit here in some of my arguments
> but too many people see these companies as being huge corporate
> entities with deep pockets that don't need to get any deeper so what's
> a little piracy?.  This is partly why we have the situations such as
> Apple buying Emagic, Pinnacle buying and selling Steinberg, Sonic
> Foundry nearly going into oblivion before being bought out by Sony,
> Opcode being bought and slaughtered by Gibson, etc.  Then there are the
> countless "little guys" who simply die off because the costs to
> producing their software outweigh the income earned by sales.
Nicely put! Typically succint of you!

> too many people see these companies as being huge corporate entities
And (sadly) there are many out there who almost see it as their duty to
destroy these (supposedly) huge corporate entities through piracy whilst
others adopt the attitude "They're rich - I'm poor... it's only fair. One up
for the little guy and I hope the money grabbing corporate bastard 'suits'
suffer."! As I have said before, this is often far from the truth and many
developers are having a hard time simply making ends meet let alone being in
profit for the development of future products. As you point out - witness
the recent spate of take-overs and acquisitions.


Best regards,


Steve
http://www.hollowsun.com