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From: paul@dual.UUCP (Baker)
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Subject: Re: Enough is too much
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Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 16:43:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 19 16:43:50 1984
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In article <1208@hao.UUCP> ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward) writes:
>The adds in Macworld are pretty terrible...
>          ...there are a couple of advertisements there that just
>appall me.  On page 155, there is an ad by "Investware".
>                                          These people at Investware
>have the gall to charge $40.00, not for a program to make your own
>pictures, but for ONLY ONE PRE-MADE picture.  That's just going too
>far.    
>                                                            Some people
>have actually made fonts that they think are worth $100 per font.  I
>think that this is piracy of the worst sort....

I imagine that the advertizers in this magazine feel that if you can be
conned into buying a wretched over-priced, under-powered heap of dross
like a Macintosh, that you can also be conned into buying software of
comparable over-price and under-performance.  Besides, after the owners
of these things have painted a few pictures and worn their arms out
switching between mouse and keyboard with the editor, they will be
desperate to get it to do something else.

Paul Wilcox-Baker.