11 Feb
1998
11 Feb
'98
8:27 a.m.
At 12:48 PM 2/11/98 +0000, you wrote:
Joe wrote:
Borland has alway taken a more enlightened attitude toward users. They
started selling Pascal for less than $100 when MS still wanted nearly $1000
per package. MicroSloth once said that they estimated the total world wide
usage for Pascal to only be a couple of hundred packages and that that
justified them charging what they did. Borland sold over 100 times that
many copies of Pascal in the first three years.
Joe
Actually, if they are an earlier version and
the software has been
upgraded they should stay with the upgrade disk(s) and computer. If the
owner throws them out, he no longer has a legit software package.
That depends on the terms of the license. A few years ago when I took
up an offer from Borland to upgrade Turbo C from version 1.5 to 2.0 I
asked them if I could sell on the old disks and manuals legally and they
said that they fully supported that course of action because it
increased their user base.
Regards
Pete