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Article #11439Re: Selling old version of software.
From: George A. Theall
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 16:57
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 16:57
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In article <9792@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes: >In article <1991Jun25.203743.27619@riacs.edu> endter@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Bill Endter RCU/DEC) writes: >> I think one of the reasons Borland allows it, is because they hope the >> person who gets the old software will want to upgrade to the latest version. > >That's what I thought. But we are still investigating. I wrote a letter to Borland about this in March. Since they have yet to respond to it, I would appreciate hearing what your investigating turns up. Any chance sidney@borland.com might give something resembling Borland's official word on the matter? I wouldn't mind even *giving away* an old copy of Turbo C Pro. George --- theall@rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu Dept. of Economics theall@ssctemp.sas.upenn.edu Univ. of Pennsylvania gtheall@penndrls.upenn.edu Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!widener!netnews.upenn.edu!rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu!theall From: theall@rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu (George A. Theall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Selling old version of software. Summary: What's the official word from Borland? Message-ID: <45292@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 26 Jun 91 16:57:05 GMT References: <POTELLE.910624122738@maine.maine.EDU> <1991Jun25.203743.27619@riacs.edu> <9792@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Distribution: na Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu