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- From: bwc@waikato.ac.nz (Ug!)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: CC's upgrade policy.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.093307.12077@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 09:33:07 +1300
- References: <Bx7BMI.47o@cs.bham.ac.uk> <COXJP.92Nov5142349@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk> <1992Nov6.090854.23172@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <1992Nov9.102126.2131@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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- D.Pead writes:
- >Tom Hughes writes:
- >>
- >>The 'enlightened upgrade policy' may, I fear, be changing slightly.
- >>According to the November issue of Archive which I received yesterday,
- >>Impression 2.18 (which supports rendering of Artworks files) will only
- >>be free to owners of Artworks. Others will have to pay a small (?) fee
- >>of around ten pounds (this price is not definate).
- >>
- >>The suggestion is that such a policy might be more the norm in future.
- >
- > Can't say I blame them - they must have spent a fortune in sending out
- > Impression upgrades. Most other firms would at least have charged for
- > the Impression 1 -> 2 upgrade (which was free if you could put up with a
- > addenum to the old manual and no new fonts).
-
- Sorry, not free. Cheaper. I should know, since I payed for it...
-
- > "Unenlightened" upgrade policies are the "Save up all the bugs
- > for the next major release and offer users a 20% discount" and "we have
- > no plans to upgrade this package". Did anybody SEE the upgrade system
- > from MS Word for DOS to Word for Windows?
-
- You mean there *was* one? Damn!
-
- Seriously though, I agree that CC's update policy has been pretty good.
- However, I'd love to see them offering upgrade *patches* for access on the
- InterNet -- they could post them to NewCastle or somthing. That way we could
- all access the upgrade and reduce the time and effort CC spends on upgrades.
-
- Ug!
-