Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!copper!kiran From: kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: May 13th yesterday (was May 13th Today) Message-ID: Date: 22 May 91 09:46:38 GMT References: > <17937@venera.isi.edu> <52920@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University Lines: 29 >kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle (me)) writes: >|Who else is there to blame? They've been shipping upgrade kits, so at >|least some disk copying is being done. Sending 7 disks to each of >|their dealers by overnight mail doesn't seem so unreasonable to me, >|nor does selling sumex &c licences to distribute the software, for >|say, $1 or so. But Apple still hasn't got the hang of being a mass >|marketer, even with that guy from Pepsi in charge. bc@apple.com (Bill Coderre) writes: >I don't think it's fair to "blame" anyone when Apple DID TAKE ALL THE >STEPS YOU DEMAND so rudely, and the simple answer is that System 7.0 Sorry if this seemed rude. The previous poster had said that we shouldn't blame Apple. I was trying to point out that there was no one else _to_ blame, _not_ that we should blame Apple. I didn't realise that Sumex & al had been sold cheap licences to distribute the system, I'll check there. -- ...kiran __________kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu________(812) 331-1710 From the corrections column in a July Fresno, CA _Bee_: "An item in Thursday's [issue] about the Massachusetts budget crisis made reference to new taxes that will help put Massachusetts 'back in the African-American.' The item should have said 'back in the black.'"