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From: rich@pro-exchange.cts.COM (Rich Sims)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Beagle Bros
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Date: 25 Nov 89 14:00:07 GMT
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If the following doesn't apply to you, just skip it...

-- FLAME ON --

You people are absolutely amazing!  Beagle Bros (a well respected company
with a record of providing customer satisfaction that's as good as any in
the industry) decides to make certain of it's software products available
for free, and places a few minor conditions on the offer.

How do you respond?  By bitching about the way they're making them
available, trying to figure out ways around the conditions, and
even demanding that BB do "more" by sending the software to someplace
where it's more easily accessible to you (or more cheaply!)

They have neither a legal nor a moral obligation to do any of this, and
the griping really provides a lot of incentive for them to continue, or
for other companies to follow suit.  Nice going!

When somebody offers you something for free, why is is so hard to just
accept it and say "Thanks!"... rather than demanding that they must do
it "your way"?

Who =CARES= what conditions they may impose?  If they only want you to
run the software when the moon is full and the stars are right, so what?
That's their prerogative!  It's not like they're asking you to =PAY= for
the software.

If you think the conditions are excessively restrictive, feel free to
register your discontent by refusing to accept or use the things that
have been offered to you.  That'll show 'em!

What a wonderfully reasonable bunch of folks we have in the Apple world!

-- FLAME OFF --

Rich Sims

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