Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!garnett From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: How to get Improv... Keywords: improv free copy Message-ID: <1033@tokio.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 19 Dec 90 05:01:23 GMT References: Organization: UT at Austin, Dept. of CS Lines: 25 In article declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) writes: > >HOW DO I GET MY FREE IMPROV? > > All distribution of the application will be on floppy disks. > This is great! Talk about abandoning existing customers... So, for those 030 cube owners who go the upgrade route (and of course who do not have a floppy drive), the only way to install Lotus Improv is to copy it from another machine having an optical or from a machine on the Ethernet (assuming you are lucky enough to have access to another cube via a network). Even these methods probably won't work if Improv uses some kind of CPU serial number copy protection. So, I guess the message from NeXT to 030 cube owners is: "If you want a free copy of Improv, go chunk down some cash ($499?) for a floppy drive." Perhaps I should join the boycotters :-). Unfortunately, this is probably just the beginning of a trend. -- John Garnett University of Texas at Austin garnett@cs.utexas.edu Department of Computer Science Austin, Texas