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- From: olson@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul Olson)
- Subject: Re: DECwindows ==> Motif license upgrade
- Message-ID: <27JUL199210184696@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Mission Operations and Data Systems
- References: <9207262258.AA10530@genrad.com> <1992Jul27.030929.3431@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 1992 10:18 EST
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- In article <1992Jul27.030929.3431@spcvxb.spc.edu>, terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes...
- >[stuff deleted]
- > A similar example was the DEQNA->DELQA trade-up offer. The terms of this
- >varied in the different Digital divisions, anywhere from "tough - go buy a new
- >board" through "here's your free DELQA". In regions where folks thought the
- >policy was bad, they lobbied (some successfully) to have it changed. The prob-
- >lem with the Motif offer was that DEC managed to keep it a big secret, so no
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >such grass-roots movement got started.
- >
- > Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
- > terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
- > terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381
-
- You got that right, Terry. We never even heard of the free update offer until
- the deadline was past. We beat up on our DEC-critter, saying that we should
- get it for free since we never were informed (we were told about the upgrade
- one week after it expired), but our words fell on deaf ears.
-
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