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- From: oleg@crumpet.cts.com (Oleg Rovner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Want vista, but not sure.
- Message-ID: <oleg.02qq@crumpet.cts.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 20:05:06 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.191457.26986@wam.umd.edu> <62855@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you
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- In article <62855@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
-
- > A few months back a similar situation occured with a certain paint
- > program. It was produced as a "coverdisk" version for a UK magazine.
- > The magazine provided very little documentation in that issue, but
- > enouraged readers to send in some amount of money to receive a full
- > printed manual, which the maker of the paint program had done up
- > especially to be sold this way thru the magazine to its UK/Euro
- > customers. His contract with the magazine specifically prohibited
- > distribution of this issue with this disk in the USA where his
- > paint program is sold commercially, by dealers, in a full package with
- > the manual included.
- >
- > Well guess what hapened... the magazine was imported and ended up on
- > USA dealers' shelves anyway. Upon hearing this my friend, the
- > author and self-publisher of the paint program, well he basically
- > hit the ceiling. He's probably still trying to scrape himself off.
- >
-
- If you are talking about Graphics Workshop, I'm damned glad they did it.
- After I spent my money on the program, and got a worthless piece of junk
- "manual" that did not even CLAIM to be a manual (it has words to the effect
- of 'this is not a tutorial or a manual, just an overview of the features')
- a program that sorely needs updating, and the author who seems to care
- a whole lot more about generating fresh income by releasing new programs
- that rather than supporting people that already gave him their money, I was
- pretty happy that I saw what seemed to be a real honest to god manual
- written for that thing, even if it was available only in Europe.
-
- Steve Hines can scrape himself off the goddamned ceiling and stop whining.
-
- Regards,
- Oleg
-
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