Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zazen!news From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Who's Driving Out There, Anyway? (was 2.1 Update: Archive site) Message-ID: <1991Apr25.034409.13565@macc.wisc.edu> Date: 25 Apr 91 03:44:09 GMT References: <562@rosie.NeXT.COM> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison Lines: 58 In article <562@rosie.NeXT.COM> cmacaskl@gehenna (Chris McAskill) writes: >All machines within the same organization may use a single >Update Set to upgrade to 2.1 provided that the purchaser of >all the machines and the single Update Set are the same. >Thus a corporation and a university need only buy a single >Update Set for all their employees. That seems reasonable. >Individual purchasers who happen to work at a corporation or >university will need to buy individual Update Sets. That seems intensely *un*reasonable. >Sorry for the hassles. I'm assuming it's not your personal fault. However, it's your ear we have, so it's your ear that gets to hear the yowling. I hope your esteemed employer rethinks this a little, and right away. >.. Gettin' my flame suit on ... As well you might. I bought 2.0 for my home machine about 60 days ago. Now NeXT is about to nick me for their sins of omission and commission by charging me (and can it really be $50?) for an upgrade to expiate those sins? Excuse me? Even Microsoft, not known for excessive generosity in its upgrade policies, doesn't go *that* far! I am not a skinflint or anything, but I get outraged when people burrow into my pocketbook because they expect me to just go along with any gag they happen to offer. This policy is absurd, and the two different policies for individual and corporate/educational buyers, taken together, is an absurdum almost too great to be believed. It can't even *pretend* to be rational. I mean, I have a university NeXT in my office. I can connect right up to it from where I'm sitting at home, in fact I will have to, since I don't have a floppy drive here. And yet you want me to pay, not only under these ridiculous pseudo-rationales, but for something on a medium I can't directly use, besides. For pete sakes, get your both feet on the ground! Somebody out there is simply not running things. <> Poetry is the mixture of common sense, which not all <> have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. <> -- John Masefield -- Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888