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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: ObjectVision - a warning
Keywords: Borland ObjectVision
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.212317.25292@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 13 Mar 91 21:23:17 GMT
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Reply-To: steven@Transact.COM
Organization: Transact Software
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davidf@ntrlink.hq.interlink.com (David Foster) writes:

>Just a word of warning to would-be objectvision users. I am a Borland
>fan, so when I saw a stack of objectvision boxes in my local pc store
>I dived in with my $99.99 and bought it. Great, I love it, a forms based
>constructor kit for windows !!! But what are these references in the
>manual to the "objectvision runtime" to distribute an application ? A
>quick call to Borland solved that one. Yes, you can distribute applications
>but the runtime version (!) of objectvision wil cost you $495 !!!!!!
>Isn`t this a variation on the "bait and switch" scam ? Well, it does say

No fair, David!  If you've worked with other software packages, you'll
realize that $495 for UNLIMITED ROYALTY-FREE runtimes is NOTHING!  That's
a ONE-TIME charge.  Period.  Then you can sell/give/distribute as many
copies of your applications as you want.  I think that's pretty good,
having worked in the UNIX environment for a long time, where runtimes are
HIGH and PER COPY generally (there ARE some notable exceptions, like JAM
from JYACC).
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