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- From: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
- Subject: Re: ICD Host Adapter
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:19:04 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.072803.28071@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>, volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) writes:
- >To be fair, there IS the possibility to d/l their software from a mailbox in
- >Germany, but the long distance phone charge would be even more than DM 20 :-(
- >
- >Yet another example how US mfgrs ***** their European customers.
-
- Er, you forget the fact that CompuServe and GEnie require on-line charges in
- order to download software as well. We're not exactly getting the ICD software
- for 'free' here either. Some companies, like ICD, offer on-line access to
- their software as a service to those people lucky enough to subscribe to that
- service. There is nothing illegal, immoral or attening in such offerings. Not
- everyone in the US is connected to CompuServe or GEnie either, and, for those
- who are not, it costs money to obtain updates from ICD.
-
- On the other hand, there are plenty of European manufacturers from whom we
- cannot even GET an update electronically. Should we then use this as an
- example of how "[European] mgfrs ***** their [US] customers"? I don't think
- so.
-
- Complain about something that matters.
-
- -- David Paschall-Zimbel
-