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From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Thank you, Apple!
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Date: 28 Mar 90 17:05:18 GMT
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In article <5519@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns) writes:
>In article <1990Mar25.125336.8932@uwasa.fi> hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE) writes:
>>Thank you, Apple for letting us ftp your latest System
>>Software. IBM and Microsoft: how about do the same thing
>>with your OSs???? I like to see OS/2 for free!! Not to
>>pay for it a small fortune.
>
>I can't see Microsoft giving away OS/2.  I wouldn't ASK them to.  They have
>put a LOT of work into that package, and deserve to be paid for it.  Now,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>upgrades, on the other hand...
>

Oh really, and do you think that Apple hasn't put a lot of work into their OS.

The major difference is that Apple really does sell you the OS, it's included
in the price of the hardware that you buy.  Upgrades are free.  If M'soft had
a proprietary hardware suite, then they could hide the cost of the OS in the
hardware price.  I understand that legitimate owners of OS/2 can upgrade for
a nominal fee.  I don't think that Apple's OS would be *free* if there were
9 billion Taiwan clones out there that could run it!

Just my $0.02 worth


kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov            Jet Propeller Labs
Kaleb Keithley

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