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- From: kanep@mcs.com (Kane Peterson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Is SASG shareware really such a good idea?
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 22:46:46 GMT
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- Message-ID: <1461.6609T988T620@mcs.com>
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- >I registered MUI about a year ago, an was quite pleased with it. It does
- >look very nice and all, and ú15 seemed a reasonable price for such a large
- >amount of work. Now it seems I am forced to pay another ú8 for a so called
- >'major' updated. What so major? It's still the same damn packeage witha
- >few new nice things, but it isn't worth another ú8. It seems that loyal
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- If you don't feel that it is worth 8 bucks, then you don't have to buy it.
- But many of the new MUI apps comming out now require (or soon will) MUI 3.x.
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- >users are not getting what they deserve and are in fact being very much
- >ripped off by the SASG idea. If i'd waited for another year before
- >registering (which I really wish I had done), I could have had MUI 3.2 up
- >and running by now. Instead, I register 2.2 and get on update and get
- >charge a lot more for a little more.
- >If anyone can justify SASG and the programmers who are using this scheme
- >I'd love to hear it.
-
- Paying for an upgrade... It doesn't sound like something new thing to me. If
- it was ONLY bug fixes, then you might have some room to complain. But MUI 3.x
- does seem to have a lot of upgrades and enhancements over the 2.x package.
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