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From: rick@ameristar (Rick Spanbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: 68040 Compatibility Warning
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.223916.10192@ameristar>
Date: 10 Jun 91 22:39:16 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.171550.27854@world.std.com> <2951@public.BTR.COM> <1991Jun6.152437.25024@world.std.com>
Organization: Ameristar Technology, Inc
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In article <1991Jun6.152437.25024@world.std.com> awm@world.std.com (Andrew W MacDonald) writes:
>In article <2951@public.BTR.COM> valentin@btr.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea  valentin@btr.com) writes:
>>In article <1991Jun4.171550.27854@world.std.com> awm@world.std.com (Andrew
>>W MacDonald) writes:
>
>You're quite right that $5000 is cheap in the business world -- but we were
>still getting ripped off.  First of all, Motorola advertised their board
>as being upwardly compatible with their 030/882 boards (source code compatible
>that is), which implies to me that they provide floating point support.
>Second, we have bought compilers with full source to C and math libraries
>for about $5000, with unlimited distribution rights (I think), and the

	I think the traditional Usenet response to perceived price
	gouging by such capitalist pigs is to vow to "write it myself and
	publish it to the net".  Of course, once you've spent the time and
	actually rewritten the module then you might be more inclined to
	underprice Moto and sell it for $3995 ;-)  The moral of the story 
	is that it always seems a lot easier to carp about donating another 
	persons time rather than your own, which is basically what you're 
	calling on Motorola to do with employee time.

	A more reasonable approach to the situation is to enter a barter
	situation with Motorola, ie offer them some equitable return if
	they give you the code "free".  For example, write some package of
	the same complexity and give it to them in trade.

					Rick Spanbauer