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- Subject: Re: HELP: Where OS/2 2.0 CSD?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.082048.5531@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 08:20:48 GMT
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
- References: <Btwsvx.LHK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Sep3.113804.14879@actrix.gen.nz> <Bu0AJI.23s@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <Bu0AJI.23s@news.cso.uiuc.edu> btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron "Bohr" Faber) writes:
- >
- > >As OS/2 is projected to sell 3 million copies by years end, I wouldn't blame
- > >IBM for getting a bit shakey about a totally "free" upgrade. I don't blame
- > >them. I wouldn't mind paying a few dollars for the major improvements the CSD
- > >will include.
- > >
- > >Perhaps someone closer to the "centre" can clarify this?
- > >
- > >Steve
- >
- > Your going to pay for something that fixes a program you already bought?
- >
- > Smart.
- >
- > Byron
-
- I get tired of this sort of stuff. I didn't buy Win3.1 support. I didn't buy a
- 32-bit graphics engine. I didn't buy the many "additional" progams likely to
- be supplied with th CSD.
-
- NEWSFLASH! Writing software costs money. Lots of money. Giving it away is a
- sure way to go broke - and leave user with nothing: for free.
-
- Buying software isn't an exercise in paying one amount for a perfect piece of
- software. If this ever happens to you.....let me know.
-
- Software and computing generally is an evolutionary thing. You either accept
- that fact or give yourself ulcers moaning about how incompetent this or that
- software company is.
-
- If they are going to continue to develop and improve the system you are using
- - you have to keep paying them to do it.
-
- Welcome to the real world.
-
- Steve
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