Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!larryh From: larryh@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Larry Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: APDA - any satisfied customers? Message-ID: <2913@tekgvs.TEK.COM> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 16:32:12 EST Article-I.D.: tekgvs.2913 Posted: Mon Nov 30 16:32:12 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 19:59:33 EST References: <1228@runx.ips.oz> <7943@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <2073@dasys1.UUCP> <6092@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: larryh@tekgvs.UUCP (Larry Hutchinson) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 23 Keywords: APDA monopoly ripoff bashing In article <6092@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> 39clocks@violet.berkeley.edu () writes: >purchased the MPW shell v2.0B1 from the April 87 APDAlog). Interestingly, >this purchase came with a promise of 'final' documentation, which has since >been changed (APDAlog - October 87) to 'If you want the future final documents >you will need to purchase those separately when they become available'. > >Somewhere along the line the price was also dropped to $200 but I guess the >extra $75 I paid doesn't cover cost of a 'final document' (I should add to Isn't this bloody illegal? -- it appears to at least flirt with mail fraud! For the most part I have been quite satisifed with APDA, but this makes me see red. (Almost as bad as when I think about the lack of support for dashed lines in quickdraw, but that's another story.) When I saw the notice in APDAlog, I assumed that there would be a general outcry and APDA would be forced to reconsider. Apparently no such luck. Larry Hutchinson, Tektronix, Inc. PO Box 500, MS 50-383, Beaverton, OR 97077 { decvax,allegra }!tektronix!tekgvs!larryh