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From: drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LightSpeed C 3.0 update
Summary: Pay attention
Message-ID: <377@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 13:43:21 GMT
References: <274@tiger.oxy.edu> <620007@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale Cal.
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In article <620007@hpsemc.HP.COM>, mbk@hpsemc.HP.COM (Miles Kehoe) writes:
> $69 for an upgrade isn't really what I call a low cost upgrade.
> I went out and bought the 2.15 compiler for my Mac... not for work,
> just to play around with.  Now that my copy is 4 weeks old, I have to
> spend another $60 for an upgrade to fix the problems with the doc
> and code I just got?  Even Microsoft has a policy on helping new owners
> get FREE upgrades (manuals and all) if you've bought an outdated
> version of their product in the last 6 months or so.  I think THINK
> has a LONG way to go before it's successful in the mass-appeal market
> if they think 'only $69' is good enough for their customers.  Guess I'll
> save my $69 and see what Borland must have up their sleeve soon.

If you had paid attention to what was posted, you would have seen the comment
that people who had purchased since 1Feb88 would get FREE upgrades by showing
proof of purchase (receipt, etc).  The $69 price is for people/companies who
had purchased before that date.

Further, Think has provided every upgrade before this for FREE to all registered
owners.  This covered at least four or five versions (I might have missed one
along the way).  Think also doesn't slip new versions into distribution without
letting people know about them (how many versions of Excel have gone out sans
announcement?  How many people heard about the release of Word 3.02?)

As to whether $69 is or is not a "low cost upgrade" I'll leave for others to
debate, but I couldn't let this obvious misstatement go by without a mild flame.
Think has really done excellent things for the Mac development community and
should not take it on the chin for something that is so obviously from out of
left field.

Dennis Cohen
Ashton-Tate Macintosh Division
dBASE Mac Development Team
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!