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From: tj@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (Todd R Johnson)
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Subject: Re: NeXT- what a ripoff!!!!
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Date: 15 Nov 90 22:03:05 GMT
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In article <15500071@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>     Expensive bug-fixes in my book are not acceptable.  Companies make the
>>consumer pay to fix bugs that shouldn't be there in the first place.  Granted,
>>the NeXT programs are large and very powerful (at least FrameMaker in this
>>case,) but given the list price, bug fixes should be a given when you consider
>>the increased possibility of their existence.

	FrameMaker does not have a built-in outliner and does not do
bibliographies.  Two features that are essential for writing technical
papers.  If you want to do technical WP on the Next the only real
option is TeX which is also the only real option for the Amiga.  On
the Mac you can get by with Word 4 and EndNote at a fraction of the
price of FrameMaker.

	I'll probably buy a Next in a few months IF it gets an
inexpensive WP that I can use to write technical papers.  I refuse to
even consider FrameMaker until they adopt a more reasonable
pricing and upgrade policy.  I suggest that others do the same.

	---Todd

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Todd R. Johnson
tj@cis.ohio-state.edu
Laboratory for AI Research
The Ohio State University