Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: New GS ROMs Message-ID: <10768@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 17 Aug 89 16:07:17 GMT References: <237@ualtamts.BITNET> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 19 In article <237@ualtamts.BITNET> userDBUG@ualtamts.BITNET (Dan Berry) writes: >1. I paid a rather large sum for a machine that I assumed, >at the time of purchase, to be worth the thousands of >dollars that I invested into it. If they upgrade it, then I >feel that it's an admission by the said company that their >machine wasn't the best even by their standards. This is rationalization, not reasoning. Do you really expect to be able to take your automobile back to the dealer when a new model comes out and insist on a free upgrade of every component that the manufacturer was able to improve between models? >Any company that charges $7 (CDN) for a piece of injection molded >plastic reset switches that takes 20 seconds to form deserves what >they get. What does the time it takes to perform the modling have to do with the cost of the part? It probably costs nearly $7 just to transport the part to you, if you figure in all the overhead.