Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.programmer:2036 comp.sys.mac:19209 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!helios.ee.lbl.gov!lll-tis!lll-winken!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!basser!natmlab!tasis!ben 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> Reply-To: ben@tasis.utas.oz.au (Ben Lian) Organization: /etc/organisation Lines: 23 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin Yin-Hon Lian ACSnet: ben@tasis.utas.oz Dept. of EE & CS ARPA : ben%tasis.utas.oz.au@uunet.uu.net University of Tasmania BITnet: munnari!tasis.utas.oz!ben@ GPO Box 252C uunet.uu.net (I think) Hobart, Tasmania 7001 UUCP : {enea,hplabs,mcvax,seismo,ukc}! Australia. munnari!tasis.utas.oz!ben