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From: ahodgson@hstbme.mit.edu (Antony Hodgson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Avoiding Borland's $15 Maintenance Upgrade Fee
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.152249.2240@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 15:22:49 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
Reply-To: ahodgson@hstbme.mit.edu.UUCP (Antony Hodgson)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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A message was posted last week saying that Borland was charging $15
for their v1.01 upgrade to Turbo C++ (maintenance upgrade - i.e., bug
fixes).  Armed with this knowledge, I called them and expressed 
surprise that they were charging for bug fixes.  They asked me if
I had encountered any bugs, so I told them I had and mentioned that
I had submitted several bug reports.  They then decided to send it
to me for free.  Infer from my experience what you will;  I suspect
that most of the bugs involve intermediate to advanced features of
C++ and Borland is gambling that neophytes won't run into them until
it's time for them to upgrade to v2.0, whenever that comes out.

Anyways, I hope this saves someone some bucks.

Tony Hodgson
ahodgson@hstbme.mit.edu

PS.  You have to call their technical support number;  no-one at the
800 customer support number knows anything about this upgrade.