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From: eckert@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de (Toerless Eckert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.next
Subject: Free Updates ? (Was Re: Questions about HPUX 8.0, X11R4, HP policy)
Message-ID: <3402@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 19 Dec 90 19:09:51 GMT
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Organization: CSD, University of Erlangen, W-Germany
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From article <1990Dec17.171742.1309@grep.co.uk>, by frank@grep.co.uk (Frank Wales):
...
> Most software updates include new commands, new facilities and performance
> or compatibility improvements which are worth actually paying for.  And
> remember that much of the code in HP-UX wasn't actually written by HP
> at all.  When was the last time you had to debug a two million line package
> you didn't write?
> 
>>It is unfair.
> 
> No, it isn't.  Name any commercial vendor who will provide on-going
> support and updates completely free of charge.

On a demonstration at out university the european director of NeXT told
us, that software updates of NeXT's operating system are for free except
for handling charges for a lifetime of every NeXT system that you buy.
I don't know how the'll manage to do this, and as i don't normally read
comp.sys.next nor do have other experience with NeXT, this is just
a reflection of what i've been told. And "No", it seems to be a real
"handling fee" only, unlike SMI's $995 offer for OpenWindows, as you
may copy you're new NeXT OS from a friend who has got the media !!

Is this really true ?

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