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Lannie says he "couldn't really answer" why he does games, but notes that "when people send us other type programs we send them back. We won't even look at them."
Emory says that games are ''"fun towrite, probably not as tedious as businesssoftware. Of course, they don'tmake enough money.''" Dollard says he writes "basicallyjust games" because "utility programspretty much exist already.Word processing is already out there.''" He says he has written "a few littleroutines to help myself at homenothinghome - nothing special. There are times youhave to write a utility to help you withmath homework or something." ==EXPECTATIONS AND REALITY==''"When we started, I expected wewere going to have the Steve Wozniakof software, but you can't become anovernight millionaire," Vaughn says.(Wozniak is the founder of Apple Computers)."We found out the processwas slower. There are too many othergood programs out there." Swett says he found ''"sort of an inertia"in his lifestyle as an academic. "Iwanted to see whether I was capable ofcompeting in the markelpfacemarketplace. I measurethe success of the business interms of whether it's profitable ornot-it isn't vet."
Lannie says going into programming
was "just a way to spend some
