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From: Brendan@cup.portal.com (Brendan P Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Geos 2.0
Message-ID: <14968@cup.portal.com>
Date: 23 Feb 89 03:43:50 GMT
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In article <01sG466d3b10102fnDc@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>,
    <dwl10@amdahl.com> David Lowery writes:

|In article <583@pacsbb.UUCP> hhersh@pacsbb.UUCP (hal hersh) writes:
|>
|>
|>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.

 I work for an Apple/IBM dealer (anything for money, right? <grin>), and we
got a copy of the Apple GEOS a couple of months ago..since I am not 
personally a big GEOS fan to begin with, it really didn't strike me as
anything incredible. Oh, they also include a 'geoMouse' with it (it has
the feel of a box of CrackerJacks on wheels)...the only reasoning behind
the non-copyprotecting that I can come up with is that BSW is trying to
feel out the market...you have to admit that trying to introduce a desktop
environment to a line of computers that's also associated with the Macintosh
really takes some guts.

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