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- From: grantp@usa.pipeline.com(Pete Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Borland C++ Upgrades
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 12:44:01 GMT
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- On Mar 24, 1996 04:14:30 in article <Re: Borland C++ Upgrades>,
- 'rmorin@inforamp.net (Randy Charles Morin)' wrote:
-
-
- >>On Mar 22, 1996 21:55:58 in article <Re: Borland C++ Upgrades>,
- >>'dkat@psych1.psy.sunysb.edu (Donna Kat)' wrote:
- >>>I cannot expressed how really ticked off I am at BORLAND C++ 4.5 in
- >>>print! I was also led to believe that I would be getting upgrades.
- >>>When I got 4.51 and had serious problems with it (e.g. it will eat my
- >>>hard drive when I open DOS TURBO DEBUGGER even without using it),
- >>>I called to find when I would be getting an upgrade. I was told
- >>>emphatically that I would only get UPDATES! and that there would be no
- >>>free upgrades. Unfortunately, I had recycled the offer as soon as I
- >>>ordered the product.
- >>Like so many other dissatisfied customers, you are being incoherent
- >>and inconsistent in your statements. Maybe you're so angry you
- >>can't think -- or at least write -- straight.
- >
- >Pete, do you do anything in this newsgroup but flame people? Everbody had
-
- >trouple getting their 4.51&2 free upgrades. I've seen a couple posts in
- this
- >newsgroup, I had trouble and I've shared stories with other troubled
- users.
- >
-
- Well, I did not. Therefore, "everybody" didn't have trouble getting their
- free updates. You are hereby proven wrong.
-
- >>Assuming that "Upgrade" means going from one major release to the
- >>next, and the "Update" means minor changes to an existing major version,
-
- >>I have a question: When have you ever gotten a free upgrade from any
- >>vendor? Exception: if you purchase a version very close to the
- >>release date of a new one, vendors sometimes do upgrade to the
- >>next version for free. In such cases, you get a written certificate to
- >>prove your entitlement. If you purchased 4.51, then this provision
- >>doesn't apply to you.
- >
- >Borland promised the 4.51 and 4.52 upgrades to everybody who bought a
- >particular series of the 4.5 compiler (almost everybody). Microsoft also
-
- >offers a subscription service that offers you three free upgrades. Free
- >upgrades are the hot new marketing tool in the software industry. But
- then,
- >from your previous uninformed and immature comments, I don't expect any
- better
- >from you.
- >
- I don't remember about 4.5 -> 4.51, you could be correct about not being
- informed of the requirement to call for the update. I have no recollection
-
- of any trouble associated with that update. However, I very clearly
- remember reading that I had to call to request the 4.52 update.
-
- Microsoft offers the subscription at extra cost -- hardly a freebie.
-
- If you do not like my posts, Randy, don't read them.
-
- >
- >>>I really liked BORLAND 3.0 and only upgraded because of the free
- >>>upgrade offers
- >>What free upgrade offers? From 3.0 to 4.0? I don't believe you.
- >
- >The free-upgrade was from 4.5 to the next two releases. I thought this
- was
- >common knowledge. I guess you just don't know what you are talking about.
-
- >
-
- I can see where the original post could be interpreted differently, in
- fact,
- now that I read it again, I think your understanding is correct; i.e. that
- DK upgraded from 3.0 to 4.5 only because Borland promised free upgrades
- for version 4.5. OK, sorry 'bout that.
-
- >>> and the fact that I was told that the problem I was
- >>>having with values not being passed to my array from a library
- >>>function was due to the fact that I had upgraded my motherboard and I
- >>>needed the upgraded compiler for the faster board. I have become
- >>>dependent on the debugger or I would just go back to a line command
- >>>compiler.
- >>Huh?? Come again. More incoherent drivel.
- >
- >Pete, you've proved yourself to be clearly the biggest asshole in this
- >newsgroup. You've also proved that you don't know what you're talking
- about.
- >Have a bad day.
- >
- Like I mentioned above, if you don't like, don't read.
- Personal attacks and name calling are not excatly the signs of maturity.
- --
-
- Pete Grant
- Kalevi, Inc.
- Sofware Engineering
-