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From: pvo3366@neptune.uucp (Paul O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT rumors
Summary: GOOD JOB, NEXT
Keywords: software updates   tradition  screwed    early customers
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Date: 26 Aug 89 23:05:58 GMT
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In article <5792@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> jans@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman) writes:
>
>It would certainly be nice if NeXT were to break with the tradition of 
>screwing early adopters, but I'm not holding my breath.......
>

Tradition?  What tradition?  You've got it backwards, Jan.  This screw
early customers stuff is yuppie new-age.  We used to get our OS-8 upgrades
for the PDP-8 free when DEC was the little guy.  

Has anyone *ever* paid to have their NeXT system software updated?

This is a great leap into the "good ole' days" when early customers were
rewarded, not penalized for their purchases.  Yeah NeXT!


Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-754-3251