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  3. From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
  5. Subject: Re: Gateway's Software Options?
  6. Message-ID: <22330@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com>
  7. Date: 9 Sep 92 14:48:43 GMT
  8. References: <1992Sep09.020012.22945@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> <1992Sep9.124046.12491@devildog.att.com>
  9. Sender: sys@ems.ems.cdc.com
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  12. Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC
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  15.  
  16. In article <1992Sep9.124046.12491@devildog.att.com>, jdalin@devildog.att.com (Jimmy Dalin) writes:
  17. |> In article <1992Sep09.020012.22945@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob) writes:
  18. |> >  Are the software packages Gateway includes with its systems totally
  19. |> >  equivalent to the retail software packages?  Are Gateway buyers qualified
  20. |> >  to all upgrades options that other buyers are?
  21. |> 
  22. |> .......  Gateway told me that they would send me upgrade offers, possibly at
  23. |> a lower price than the original software vendor.  (This remains to be seen.)
  24. |> Second, although you can legally sell this software to someone else (by
  25. |> removing the software from your machine and giving the buyer the original
  26. |> disks and manuals), you cannot guarantee the buyer that they will receive
  27. |> upgrade notices.
  28. |> 
  29.  
  30. True, My updat cost to Windows 3.1 from Windows 3.0 via Gateway $36.
  31.