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From: bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long)
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Subject: Re: Red Ryder Vers. 10
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Date: Sun, 9-Aug-87 10:18:57 EDT
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In article <4129@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> jjs@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM (James Solderitsch) writes:
>On the Freesoft Roundtable (Red Ryder Support Service on Genie)
>Scott Watson recently reported that version 10 of Red Ryder will
>be sold commercially and *not* be available as shareware.
>New buyers will look at a list price of $100 or so but the price
>will be discounted by the usual high-volume mail order places.

>Discussion on this topic welcome!
>I for one plan on upgrading when the version is released;
>people in the know claim its a dynamite product.

Well, it has the *potential* for being a dynamite product, but in my experience
in trying to use RR since Version 5, I'd be *real* surprised if Version 10 had
any fewer bugs than any of the previous versions.

Bugs in shareware don't bug me, since you aren't forced to use (or pay for)
said shareware product.  However I would have been *very* upset if I had paid
$100 for the bug-ridden Version 9.0.

And before you remind me that RR v10 has been through beta-testing this time
(we've been beta-testing it for at least a couple years that I know of, but
the same old bugs keep popping up), let me remind you that Word 3.0 went
through beta-test, too.
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	Roger L. Long
	FileNet Corp
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