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From: strasser@grasp.cis.upenn.edu (Colin Strasser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ATALK III w/ service
Summary: Life's little ironies
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Date: 27 May 90 12:23:43 GMT
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In article <20360@snow-white.udel.EDU> CCUCARD%indsvax1.bitnet@uicvm.uic.edu (Paul Cardwell) writes:
>
>        I recently called Oxxi, to ask about their lastest update of
>        Atalk III...
>        I was pissed!  I like Atalk3, but I couldn't get a word in
>        english about HOW MUCH the UPGRADE IS and WHAT has been updated.

Ah yes, thank goodness for commercial software with all its wonderful pro-
duct support.  I've used ATalk III - wonderful product.  Did it lose a sale
because I could get high quality shareware?  Yes it did.  Would it be my
term program of choice had Marco released it as shareware?  Yes it would.
Would Marco therefore have made some money from me instead of losing me
to others?  Yes he would.  So what has standard marketing brought him?  As-
suming Chuck's post is reasonably fitting to Marco's circumstances, then
it has brought Marco heartache, headache, lost sleep, and little money.  It
has apparently done the same for some of ATalk's users.

Marco, next time you get the urge to rail against Jack, think about it 
first.  His program is high quality, so he does kmow what it takes to write
good software.  But he has released it via shareware, and so broken down
many of the barriers between himself and his users that are introduced by
publishers like Oxxi.
				-Colin
Colin Strasser				University of Pennsylvania
strasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu		Moore School of Electrical Engineering
CI$: 72447,1650				Class of '90 -- Penn's 250th year!