Hey Frits,
On 1999-10-03, Frits Spieker wrote to Andy Roberts on message number 361;
FS> And then Andy Roberts mumbled something about 'It's NOT over. Period.'.

FS>                     No more free downloads of Netscape. No
FS> more free updates to JAVA. No more free ... etc...
FS> So unless your sister-in-law is willing to fork out some
FS> (what is it) US$279,-- per 2 years just for some updates
FS> that are free for about every other known opsys in the
FS> universe, she has indeed reasons to worry.

  Come down to earth!  In the time others have paid hundreds of $ each time
they "upgrade" from Win3.1 to Win95 and then Win98 and now W2000 (and stood in
queues to do it) IBM has given me free access to 12 upgrades to Warp 4 adding
function and stability along the way.  Now they are asking me to pay $279 for
2
years of future updates to my favourite Intel OS.  Hmmm, tough choice here!

Cynics know the price of everything but the value of nothing.


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