Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!po.CWRU.Edu!njg2 From: njg2@po.CWRU.Edu (J. Norell Guttman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: NeXT- what a ripoff!!!! Message-ID: <1990Nov13.232531.9757@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 13 Nov 90 23:25:31 GMT Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA) Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: cwns4.ins.cwru.edu Well boys and girls -and you Felix Lugo or whatever you are {NeXT fiend}!: It appears that EVEN NeXT enthusiast are upset with their machines! Check comp.sys.next! They complain and complain. For example: FrameMaker which was redulded with bugs but still sold for $500 offers a bug free upgrade!!Isn't that wonderful!!!! Hey but wait a moment: this upgrade will cost $400!??!?!? One NeXT owner even says he "regrets purchasing FrameMaker" a program whose upgrade nearly costs as much as the original. Thank G-D we have bug free programming on the Amiga! Why even ProWrite now offers Bug Free software---> Guarenteed!!!! No outrageously expensive software to make the computer work- the Amiga is productive after spending maybe at most a couple of hundred dollars at most- NeXT forget about it! You want FrameMaker? You want Color? You want anything and even your grandchildren won't be able to afford to go to college since they will still be paying off your debt! You also hear in comp.sys.next about Lotus and the greed (Lotus wants to copywrite the "wheel" {the spreadsheet}) so these NeXT dudes are complaining! Why not scream at Steve Jobs! The dude is charging college students with 6 grand machines--- as if every kid can afford to go to college without financial assistance! Who knows there might be the day in which some top universities wi will demand that incoming freshman buy a NeXT just like Drexel U. demands a Mac. And how much does the NeXT actually cost!??!? It is a single board, right!!! There is very little labor involved since the entire manufacturing process is roboticized! So who is getting all this money- Jobs and his minnions are going to rake in millions .... unless Amiga users go out into the world and start educating the masses! I forgot who I am quoting but "Jobs is getting more attention than Gorbachev!!!!" Magazines from Newsweek to womens dailies glorified the revolution!!! Stop him while you can!!! J.Norell Guttman njg2@po.cwru.edu