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From: ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar)
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Subject: Re: Borland and NeXT? (was: PRODIGY HATES AMIGA)
Keywords: borland false advertising
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Date: 7 Sep 90 03:21:23 GMT
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In article <14244@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes:
>I guess they figured, heck, if those foolish NeXT users are willing to pay
>$1500 for an add-on floppy disk drive, just think what they'll be willing 
>to fork over for a decent spreadsheet.  If we charged $2000 a copy and sold
>to every 7500 NeXT owners, we'd make $15 million dollars.  To make the same
>as a $200 Amiga program, we'd have to sell to 75,000 Amiga owners.  That's
>only around 4% of Amiga owners, but then again, they probably aren't quite
>so foolish...

I am wondering about Borland's original ad. in 1985 Amiga World (you
know, dual page, Turbo Pascal Amiga coming soon).  In Oz, if they made a
statement like that, the consumer protection laws would have been
violated when they never brought anything out.

Basically, Borland has indulged in false advertising.  Anyone care to
comment if US consumer protection laws could be brought against them?
I'd just love to know the *true* story about why it was never produced.

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