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From: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Geos 2.0
Keywords: Geospell, Geos 2.0, Help, Berkeley Softworks (BSW)
Message-ID: <01sG466d3b10102fnDc@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 21 Feb 89 20:58:51 GMT
References: <1319@pbhyd.PacBell.COM> <583@pacsbb.UUCP>
Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX
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In article <583@pacsbb.UUCP> hhersh@pacsbb.UUCP (hal hersh) writes:
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>tom...i'd like to help, but you got further with geos 2.0 than i did!
>my experience is similar...got two bad disks, called bsw, got their
>answering machine, no response for two months, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
>i'd like to see all geos users write to bsw and complain about their
>'no help except on q-link' policy.  i bought geos, not q-link, and i
>resent their high-handed attempt to force me to subscribe to a service
>in which i have no interest.  the president of bsw is brian dougherty;
>perhaps a slew of polite 'i'm angry' letters would help.  even better,
>if you belong to a user's group, invoking the group's name might carry
>even more power.  there's strength in numbers!

The latest issue of "Transactor" has an editorail about BSW and GEOS.
It appears that the Apple II verson of GEOS is NOT copy protected.

While you are complaining about the support (or lack there of), put
in a word or two about the copy protect Bulls__t.

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