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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.183524.15060@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
- References: <1jip6uINNrn2@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <ePFoXB9w165w@tcscs.UUCP> <1993Jan20.160446.25054@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:35:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.160446.25054@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> gchalk@nyx.cs.du.edu (Geoff Chalk) writes:
- >
- >I would like to remind everybody that is complaning that there might be
- >(and most likely will be) a charge for the upgrade to OS/2 2.1
- >that yesterday (1/19/93) IBM declared 4th quarted\r losses of
- >over $5,000,000,000.00.....yup thats % billion dollars for
- >OCT, NOV, & DEC 92!!!
-
- The vast majority of which was related to one-time charges incurred
- due to early retirement and various other downsizing moves.
-
- >
- >and remember that the new version will come w/ almost $20 worth of
- >diskettes!!
-
- Not if I download it off the net. We're not talking about the charge
- like there was for the last one -- just a media charge.
-
- >
- >IMHO...stop complaining if you want to keep getting upgrades!!
-
- Oh, I see. Why does this sort of reasoning -- which we're hearing
- more of all the time -- start to sound like the old Microsoft "We
- charge for every little bug fix because, after all, what choice do you
- have?" sort of line?
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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