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From: brownc@utah-cs.UUCP (Eric C. Brown)
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Subject: Re: Lukewarm flame re: New ideas on software piracy...
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Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 18:42:40 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  3 18:42:40 1985
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In article <741@dataio.UUCP> bjorn@dataio.UUCP (Bjorn Benson) writes:
>There are people who want to use computers without programming.  These
>people generally do not like public domain because it has no support
>and no hand-holding. (Can you imagine the MacIntosh with no "Inside Mac"
>updates from Apple?)

Gee, and our company has paid several thousand dollars for compilers, operating
systems, and so forth, and we have registered our software, and we *STILL* 
can't get support.  (We haven't gotten a 3.1 PC-DOS upgrade, no news on Lattice
C compiler bug fixes/upgrades, Catalytix Safe C bug fixes/upgrades,  ANYTHING
produced by Microsoft corporation, or anybody else except for Wizard C).  At 
least with public domain stuff, you can get the source code so that you can 
fix the f*cking bugs yourself.

We have gotten better support from Columbia University's KERMIT than we have 
from any major software company except for Wizard Software Systems (who produce
Wizard C.)

Eric C. Brown
brownc@utah-cs
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