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From: daryl@ihlpe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Documentation
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Date: Sat, 31-Jan-87 14:27:25 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 31 14:27:25 1987
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> >Use the Developer Support phone number provided in your documentation.
>    Oh, you mean the documentation that one can't get unless one purchases
> undesired software at exorbitant (well, at least *unreasonable*) prices?
> Tell me again how Atari supports developers.

(I saw the 8-), but still... )

I have been watching this for a few days.  I am amazed (not necessarily
at the above author, but it was a convenient followup article) on how many
people are unwilling to purchase the ATARI package but feel that they
somehow deserve free information.  If the information ATARI provides has
some value, then each of us must evaluate ATARI's asking price with our
perceived value of it.  When we decide that other software is a better 
value, then OK, but we should expect that software to provide the necessary
documentation.

I do, however, believe that ATARI should unbundle the machine detailed
documentation from the various development packages.

disclaimer: I own an ATARI, own stock in ATARI, and am extremely biased
	    in favor of ATARI......

Daryl Monge				UUCP:	...!ihnp4!iheds!dlm
AT&T					CIS:	72717,65
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