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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!bcstec!kuryakin
  2. From: kuryakin@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Rick Pavek)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
  4. Subject: Re: The real reason Apple is now charging for system software
  5. Message-ID: <4151@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
  6. Date: 9 Nov 92 17:52:08 GMT
  7. References: <mike_steiner-291092141915@192.35.50.131> <1992Oct30.192213.21591@wixer.cactus.org> <1992Nov7.054744.13230@u.washington.edu>
  8. Organization: Boeing
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  11. In article <1992Nov7.054744.13230@u.washington.edu> tamara@glia.biostr.washington.edu (tiny t) writes:
  12. >One of the incentives for buying my 486 was the fact that I got
  13. >    Windows for free
  14. >        Paradox for free
  15. >        C and C++ Borlind compiler for free
  16.  
  17. I think one of the points here is that you get the operating system free.
  18. It's the upgrades that aren't.  Will you get to stay current with
  19. Windows, Paradox, and the C/C++ compilers for free?  However and whenever
  20. they upgrade their products?  I think not.
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  24. Rick Pavek                       | Never ask a droid to outdo its program.
  25. kuryakin@bcstec.ca.boeing.com    |           
  26. Seattle, WA                      |   It wastes your time
  27.                                  |          and annoys the droid.  
  28.