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KONEY · 24 February 2021, 20:34

All this makes sense but the biggest reason for me is that Commodore (like Atari with ST and Acorn with Archimedes) didn't have the power and/or the will to act as a lobby towards professional software publishers like MS and apple did. For the same reason these days applications like for example Cubase VST or Photoshop aren't ported to Linux, because if they were MS and apple would have plenty of legal ways to make the publishers sorry for it. We all are very well aware of this.

24 February 2021, 20:34	#33
KONEY OctaMED Music Composer Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Venice - Italy Age: 49 Posts: 670	All this makes sense but the biggest reason for me is that Commodore (like Atari with ST and Acorn with Archimedes) didn't have the power and/or the will to act as a lobby towards professional software publishers like MS and apple did. For the same reason these days applications like for example Cubase VST or Photoshop aren't ported to Linux, because if they were MS and apple would have plenty of legal ways to make the publishers sorry for it. We all are very well aware of this.