Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!esquire!sbb
From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Disktop upgrade (was Re: Aask/INIT Manager -- Cannot post)
Summary: Why the extra $7?
Message-ID: <268@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 21:59:38 GMT
References: <2586@fluke.COM> <2592@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
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In article <2592@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>PS  The upgrade to DiskTop 3.01 which makes it work under MultiFinder
>    (including search and set file attributes) is now ready to go.  Upgrade
>    cost is the license number and $7.  Mine goes out tomorrow.

Umm, is there any reason people should be paying for what is essentially a
bug fix?  I mean, I had Multifinder before I had Disktop, and assumed that
doing a Find wouldn't crash my system (a reasonable assumption).  Now, I like
CE Software and think they have great products (I *love* Disktop), but why
do I have to pay an additional $7 just to get a product that works in the
first place?  Why couldn't they just post a patch (like Think does for LSC)?

By the way, if the upgrade also included enhanced functionality I wouldn't
really mind the extra bucks.

Any CE people on the net?

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