Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!d75!cello!sabre!robin
From: robin@sabre.uucp (Robin D. Wilson/1000000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Software Antics vs Amigo Times
Message-ID: <3146@cello.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 90 18:51:37 GMT
References: <564@lexicon.com> <19000034@attcc.UUCP> <570@lexicon.com>
Sender: news@cello.UUCP
Reply-To: robin@reed.UUCP (Robin D. Wilson/1000000)
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX
Lines: 34

In article <570@lexicon.com> fc@lexicon.com (Frank Cunningham) writes:
>In article <19000034@attcc.UUCP> bn@attcc.UUCP writes:
>> You get mad when a magazine gives you a $70 accounting package, and a $50
>> spelling checker???? I thought these two packages ALONE were worth the $39.95
>> subscription price.
>I already own the accounting package, the version they're 'giving
>away' is obsolete, they're charging $20 for the manual, if they have
>one to sell you, and I know how to spell, thank you. I dislike Antic
>charging me for something I've already bought from them. It's the both
>the conflict of interest and the fact that I'm paying twice for the
>program that irritate me. Since I used to subscribe, I didn't have the
>option to decline the losing disk. I still view the 'giveaway' as a
>convenient way for Antic to advertise their upgrade at my expense, by
>avoiding having to find something new or unique for the disk. (rant
>rant)

So if I buy a Disk mag that has software on that I could have already bought 
elsewhere, the mag is a rag and they cheated me?  I think not.  It sounds
to me like your mad that they sold the software you bought at full (or regular
discounted price) for a fraction of what you payed for it.  For the rest of
us it was a good deal.  Some people get really mad when they buy an album and 
one of the songs stinks, but that's not the record comany's fault; is it?
If antic wants to advertise their new software by giving away teh old, that's
really their perogative -- after all they do own the magazine.


+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|The views expressed herein, are the sole responsibility of the typist at hand|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|USNail:                               UUCP:                                  |
|2323 Wells Branch Pkwy., #G107        cs.utexas.edu!romp!ibmchs!auschs\      |
|Austin, TX  78728                     !sabre.austin.ibm.com!robin            |
|Home: (512)251-6889                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<-MUST BE INCLUDED|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+