VMS distribution?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Wed Feb 11 08:27:42 1998

At 12:48 PM 2/11/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Joe wrote:
>
>> 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

   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
>
Received on Wed Feb 11 1998 - 08:27:42 GMT