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- From: Lee@burst.demon.co.uk (Lee Huggett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Is SASG shareware really such a good idea?
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 11:42:59 GMT
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- > In article <1461.6609T988T620@mcs.com>, kanep@mcs.com (Kane Peterson) wrote:
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- >> If you don't feel that it is worth 8 bucks, then you don't have to buy it.
-
- > I can't afford ú8. It's that simple.
-
- bugger I thought I was hard up :-)
-
- >> But many of the new MUI apps comming out now require (or soon will) MUI 3.
-
- > Exactly my point. I spent ú15 (which I couldn't really afford, but thought
- > that it was worth it and the other deserved somehting for it rather than
- > me just using a pirate key) on a package which is soon to become
- > redundant. Great. ú15 well spent. And it was less than a year ago.
-
- >> Paying for an upgrade... It doesn't sound like something new thing to me.
- >> it was ONLY bug fixes, then you might have some room to complain. But MUI
- >> does seem to have a lot of upgrades and enhancements over the 2.x package.
-
- > It would have been better if you pay for major upgrades after a given
- > period, say 1 1/2 years. I got bugger all use out of MUI 2.x because at
- > the time few programmes supported it, and those that did weren't always a
- > great deal of use to me. MUI 3.x seems to becoming very well supported,
- > but I guess I'll just have to use the ordinary interface.
- > How many major updates can we expect? Another 2 or 3? That's, ooh, ú15 for
- > a new user and up to ú47 for a user who has fully support MUI since MUI
- > 2.x. Good value eh?
-
- > M.
-
- I happily sent off my eight quid upgrade fee and got the registration back in
- about 4 weeks (it was over crimble tho..)
-
- I have also registered Magic WB and MagicCX for the same money..
-
- I feel very comfortable sending my money off the SASG (paul jewell in the UK)
- and I think the the products they release are worth the money, well MUI and
- Magic WB are anyway....
-
- and BTW I am a student
-
- Lee
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