Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!uqv-mts!Dan_Berry From: userDBUG@ualtamts.BITNET (Dan Berry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: New GS ROMs Message-ID: <246@ualtamts.BITNET> Date: 18 Aug 89 17:20:42 GMT References: <237@ualtamts.BITNET> <34083@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: University of Alberta (MTS) Lines: 25 In article <34083@apple.Apple.COM>, dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) writes: >A large amount >of work went into the ROM's development, and Apple owns it. I agree wholeheartedly. However, even though you can't slam the new ROMs into the GS, I wish to carry on the premise of it by saying: "If I could the new ROMs, why not charge me a *MILD* cost for it?" Also, I wouldn't be surprised if the programmers pulled an MacSE trick and snuck digitized pictures of themselves into the ROMs... >Oh, *fine*...shall I recommend to my superiors that we never >improve our products, because our customers will be annoyed >that they can't have the new ones for free? :-) >>[...] >Do you want a free upgrade every time a product changes? > [ ] Yes [ ] No > >Okay...now, what do I do with the results of this survey? 10,000 starving comedians and you're trying to be funny... :-) +-----------------------------------+ DAN BERRY ! "Violence is the last ! University of Alberta ! refuge of an incompetent." ! Computing Systems +-----------------------------------+ (Network and DataCom)