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- Path: netcom.com!marnold
- From: marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold)
- Subject: Re: Borland C++ 5.0 PRICE-E!!!
- Message-ID: <marnoldDMJsAM.F35@netcom.com>
- Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
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- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 06:49:34 GMT
- Sender: marnold@netcom11.netcom.com
-
- winman95@nando.net (David B. Lection) writes:
-
- >pete@borland.com (Pete Becker) wrote:
-
- >Does anyone, besides me, feel that this $200 upgrade fee is a bit
- >outrageous?
-
- >BC++ 5.0 is unproven, and this is not a subscription, so undoubtedly,
- >another $30-$50 update will be required within 6 months which gives a
- >marginal bump in functionality and fixes some bugs.
-
- >I think the update should be priced at $129...
-
- >What do YOU think?
-
- Hmm, be careful David, I don't think pete@borland.com would have said
- everything you've *quoted* him as saying!
-
- (Psst, I know David really said all the above, but he was careless about
- somehow leaving "pete@borland.com (Pete Becker) wrote:" at the top of his
- posting. I don't know about Pete, but I sure don't like poeple putting
- words in my mouth.)
-
- Matt
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-