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cinn...@one.net (r. n. dominick) writes:

>Michael Hermann (her...@akira.uni-passau.de) wrote:
>: MS will probably make them bugfixes available by other means as well, 
>: although I doubt they will make them available for free (ie FTP), given 
>: their behaviour in the past

>Huh? I can't think of one major bugfix/minor version-number change where 
>the patch wasn't available for free from Microsoft (let's see... DOS 6.2, 
>DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, some version of Lan Manager...) for at least some 
>time. Hell, my sister downloaded Win3.11 from GEnie, fer crying out loud.S

That's interesting, I haven't run across an update from Dos 6.2 to dos 6.22
for under $45 dollars, certainly not on the net (not that I've looked
either).  Upgrading windows 3.0 to 3.1 was a $89 pricetag at the time, I
don't know if that upgrade is now free or not.

Hell, upgrading friom Dos 3.3 to Dos 5 (er 5.1 er 5.11 er 5.2) was not
free.

Microsoft pioneered the concept of charging you to make their software work
like they told you it would work inthe first place.

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