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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
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Posted: Mon Nov 30 16:32:12 1987
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Reply-To: larryh@tekgvs.UUCP (Larry Hutchinson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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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
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