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  4. From: adkinsg@symphony.cc.purdue.edu (Garry Adkins)
  5. Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
  6. Message-ID: <C18oCG.H00@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
  7. Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
  8. Organization: Purdue University
  9. References: <ePFoXB9w165w@tcscs.UUCP> <1993Jan20.160446.25054@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan21.152712.15720@njitgw.njit.edu>
  10. Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:55:27 GMT
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  13. In article <1993Jan21.152712.15720@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
  14. >>and remember that the new version will come w/ almost $20 worth of
  15. >>diskettes!!
  16. >
  17. >If they only charge for the diskettes, manuals, packaging, and
  18. >shipping, I won't complain.  But I will be very pissed off if some
  19. >gang of lawyers wants to add on an extra $30 to go into Bill Gates's
  20. >pockets.
  21. >
  22.  
  23. There's no real way around this one.  I suspect you should be gearing
  24. up to get "pissed off".  You're paying $15-20 to microsoft per each
  25. now, and that won't change soon.  This (again) is the driving force
  26. behind a "windowless" os/2.  It is real microsoft code in there,
  27. and IBM must pay microsoft real money for it.
  28.  
  29. Garry
  30.  
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  33. Garry Adkins                             adkinsg@symphony.cc.purdue.edu  
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