Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1+some 2/3/84; site dual.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!mordor!dual!paul From: paul@dual.UUCP (Baker) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Enough is too much Message-ID: <849@dual.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 16:43:50 EDT Article-I.D.: dual.849 Posted: Fri Oct 19 16:43:50 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Oct-84 07:38:44 EDT References: <1208@hao.UUCP> <4510@fortune.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA Lines: 22 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.