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- From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
- Subject: Re: DOS Merge and bundling (was Re: SAS 2.0)
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- References: <2A95ADC3.4DB3@telly.on.ca> <BtE05u.CEA@gator.rn.com> <1992Aug23.180355.20174@sinkhole.unf.edu> <2AA0D4B2.3D20@telly.on.ca>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 19:42:50 GMT
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- evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
-
- >Much as folks like Larry would not believe it, there are many UNIX users
- >out there who have no need for DOS partitions, DOS emulation, or
- >whatever. Giving them a choice of whether to buy Merge bundled or not is
- >certainly better than forcing the choice, one way or another.
-
- But if the pricing was reasonable to begin with -- where as the price
- of the product with merge was still below the industry -- and the quality
- was top notch with minor bugs (if any) shipped in distribution
- product - it wouldn't matter -- however, many companies have a reputation
- of shipping product with known bugs -- and requiring updates via a BBS
- (and charging for overnight bug fix updates to be billed on the
- customers FedEx account)..
-
- I have merge here. It comes with MS-DOS 5.x. It's used maybe 1 time
- every other month. Actually, I use it to set up the mount points
- for PCI and NFS since I started using another machine running DOS to
- mount my unix drives with the DOS filesystems for other machines.
-
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