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From: ben@tasis.utas.oz (Ben Lian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LS Pascal 2.0 Update price
Keywords: $50 ???
Message-ID: <664@tasis.utas.oz>
Date: 10 Aug 88 02:30:16 GMT
References: <232@sdeggo.UUCP> <5093@husc6.harvard.edu>
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In article <5093@husc6.harvard.edu> singer@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
>In article <232@sdeggo.UUCP> drew@sdeggo.UUCP (Drew Dean) writes:
>>Come on, Think...your updates used to be free, but after your acquisition by
>>Symantec, things seem to be changing....Why I remember I few short months
>>ago the updates for LS C 2.13 & 2.15 coming over comp.binaries.mac....
>
>	Yes, and I remember that as well. However, those updates were updates
>that could be patched into existing copies, and were cheap and easy to 
>distribute. Major new releases of software can not be patched in, and can't
>be produced for nothing.

Quite right.  I think most of us are happy paying a reasonable amount of money
for good software if it really represents value-for-money.  I only wish that
being a registered user meant a little more than no information whatsoever.
Sigh.


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