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- From: mryba@MCS.COM (Michal L. Rybarski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Is SASG shareware really such a good idea?
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- Date: 7 Feb 1996 22:06:27 -0600
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- Colin Palmer (cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
- : In article <m.willsher-0502961519390001@case2.sys.uea.ac.uk>,
- : Matt Willsher <m.willsher@uea.ac.uk> wrote:
- : > 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
- : > users are not getting what they deserve and are in fact being very much
- : > ripped off by the SASG idea.
-
- These few things seems enough for you to make you concerned and to render
- v2.3 out... BTW, if you ask me, MUI up to v2.3 wasn't
- worth ú15...but v3.2 seems like. So, get v3.2 for that ú8 and make
- your old ú15 worth... ;)
-
- : I think you get an incredibly good deal out of SASG. Some software
- : companies don't even offer cheaper upgrades when they release a new
- : version of their software.
-
- : > 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.
-
- : Well, like I said before, this is the first major update in MUI's
- : lifetime, so while you may have been caught out this time (there are
- : always going to be people who buy something just before the updated
- : version comes out), you probably won't have to pay for another update for
- : a while.
-
- Just an idea from PC world(yuck?): Some companies (like
- Borland) offer free upgrades if one purchased 'soon to change' version of
- particualr software. How's that sound? It would certainly cut
- down the number of frustrated people who, like in MUI case, registered a
- month before the major update...
-
- bye,
- Michal
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