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From: gaynor@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor)
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Subject: Re: It's off until first half of '91
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Date: 29 Sep 90 01:25:02 GMT
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In article <45231@apple.Apple.COM> heksterb@Apple.COM (Ben Hekster) writes:
>
>Let's not forget that we are all getting this particular product free of
>charge, though.

	WRONG.  Every owner of a Macintosh has paid for the System
Software.  That's the only way that the current price of any of the
Macintosh Family Computers can be justified.  Each purchaser pays for
the current system software and documentation to such, as well as
upgrades to future versions of the System Software - although that
does not include manuals to those upgrades.

	So don't talk to me about Apple's altruism.  Each Mac user has
paid for the System Software, even though that purchase was buried in
the price of the initial purchase of their Macintosh.

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