Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: WB 1.3.2 Message-ID: <746@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 7 Sep 89 15:38:03 GMT Lines: 84 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews Ahh... a breath of fresh air in a morass otherwise infantile postings on the subject of the WB upgrade! I'm not CBM, but I can tell you what I have heard from a CBM person, and second hand from one who has spoken with a CATS person. In <1496@esunix.UUCP>, blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes: >I see your points, and generally agree with them, but I've got a few >of questions. > >1) Will the 1.3.2 upgrade be available through Amiga dealers? At what > cost? It will be available. Disks are being prepared and sent out to dealers. This is true for Canada according to a CBM employee here in Vancouver, and is true according to a CATS employee. Indications are that it will be free (your mileage may vary, but if it varies too much, tell CBM about it). >2) Is it allowable for me as an Amiga user's group librarian to put the > WB1.3.2.zoo on one of the disks I put together each month for our > group? (Probably not, but I want to make sure.) Probably not... no different than any other CBM licensed software. The person who spoke with CATS said the answer he got was 'I doubt it, but I'll ask' (paraphrased). >3) Will WB1.3.2.zoo be distributed through comp.binaries.amiga or Fred > Fish? I really doubt this one. >I'm just hoping that I'll have something to tell the members of our >user's group (officially registered with CBM, if that makes any >difference) besides: "You'll have to subscribe to a commercial BBS >service to get the upgrade". Tell them they'll get it in good time. >Whatever the answers to my questions, I'd like to say THANKS! for >the updated software. I'm glad we didn't have to wait for 1.4 for this >upgrade. Hear hear! I'll second that. Thanks Commodore, for using the technology. <<< WARNING: flames ahead >>> This is for all the folks whining and pouting on the nets and BBS's. CBM has seen fit to distribute an upgrade between releases, a first for them except for the hddisk.device, and have decided to try a way that gets it to a lot of people quickly (over 10,000 on Compuserve's Amiga forums.. don't know the figures for the others), more quickly than sending it to dealers. They have decided to make it a freebie, something few other companies would do. Think about it a minute. It is the first time they have done this, and they are understandably nervous. (at least their legal department is, if it was up to the CATS folks, who knows what the situation would be) About the only thing you can fault Commodore for is not making it clear that it would be distributed to dealers, or perhaps for putting it up on the networks first. It's alays the case that any given item is available one place before it's available anywhere else. Look at the products that came out in Canada or Europe first (A2000, A2024), or the products that came out in the US first (Obese Agnus, 1.3, many more). I don't hear a lot of whining when that happens, yet here are a whole bunch of otherwise pretty good folks flaming CBM when they do A Good Thing, and do it free. This is the way to ensure that they will think twice about doing it again, so lay off eh? Flame them where flames are due. Don't leave them in their usual position of not being able to do anything without putting their flak jackets on. Indications are that the entire company is turning around and doing a lot more things right. Let's hear something positive as these things happen. Sheesh! -larry -- The Mac? Oh, that's just like a computer, only slower. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+